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For true baseball fans, football's violent chaos is too complicated for the reliable equations that the diamond sport yields so readily. Batting averages, fielding averages, slugging averages, on-base-percentages provide reassuring measures of worth. In the past fifteen years, Baseball Prospectus has been developing even more precise statistics to evaluate our favorite players, teams, and even time-distant eras. This standalone sequel to their hit Baseball Between the Numbers takes fans deeper into the strange human calculus that keeps us glued to the screen. Editor's recommendation.
— Lisa Echenthal
Overview
In 1996, a brassy young team of fans produced a guide to baseball statistics. Printed on a photocopier, its distribution, which was in the low hundreds, was limited to friends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteen years later, the Baseball Prospectus annual regularly hits best-seller lists and has become an indispensable guide for the serious fan.
In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectus integrates statistics, interviews, and ...