Baseball, as statistics
"Strength in numbers. A conversation with Bill James, the famed statistical baseball analyst just hired by the Red Sox." [Salon.com]
Of all sports, baseball is the ripest for revealing statistically meaningful analysis, simply from the volumes of performance statistics being tracked and the ample sample sizes. Bill James is the best at this sort of analyis. If you like baseball, reading one of his Historical Abstracts should be required reading.
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