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Baseball Greatness: Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017 Paperback - 2018

by David Kaiser


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Recent advances in baseball statistical analysis have made it possible to assess the totality of contribution each player makes to team success or failure. Using the metric Wins Above Average (WAA)--the number of wins that the 2016 Red Sox, for example, added because they had Mookie Betts in right field, instead of an average player--the author undertakes a fascinating review of major league baseball from 1901 through 2017. The great teams are analyzed, underscoring why they were successful. The great players of each generation are identified using simple, reliable metrics--from Ty Cobb through Mike Trout, and pitchers from Christy Mathewson to Clayton Kershaw. Surprises abound. The importance of pitching is found to be vastly exaggerated. Many Hall of Fame pitchers (and some hitters) achieved immortality almost entirely on the backs of their teammates, while a few over-qualified players still await induction. Focusing on today's rosters, the WAA assessment shows that the game is threatened by an unprecedented shortage of great players.

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  • Title Baseball Greatness: Top Players and Teams According to Wins Above Average, 1901-2017
  • Author David Kaiser
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc.
  • Date 2018-04-03
  • ISBN 9781476663838 / 1476663831
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.6 in (24.89 x 17.27 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Baseball players - United States - History, Baseball players - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017061210
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

David Kaiser taught history for decades at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, the Naval War College and Williams College. He has written nine other books and has given talks at Society for American Baseball Research conventions. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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