Alan Schwarz data book looks at baseballs boring ritualized numbers obsession by a few of its fans

Guy Baldwin


Stats. Baseball and stats go hand in hand and Author Alan Schwarz has written an extensive book looking at the history of the two. This book is about as interesting to read as instructional manual for electric gadgets in mandarin as Mr Schwarz celebrates the past statistical nerds and obsessive compulsive individuals that somehow made baseball a numbers game. Alan's book is basically a researched of the whack jobs that searched past statistics and the recent individuals that put money ball stats and computers into every clubhouse  and Mr Schwarz gets many money ball speaking tour gigs at schools to talk of this irrelevancy of combining baseball and math in every aspect and ratio of the already long game. Could it be that this game is so long because you got jerks up in the press box and dugout analyzing  every bit of data before every pitch? The over-representation and importance of baseball and its coincidence e with corporate consumption and advertising is the real numbers game that should be analyzed but likely never will by shills like Alan Schwarz.

 and reading a chapter on Mr Allen's obsessive research and of obscure player sin 1886 made me lose faith in humanity. Baseball is such a boring game because of the time during the game and the time devoted by geeks like lee Allen in recollecting obscure statistics of the game from play of generations ago and this obsession has tested the patience of many casual fans of the game including myself. it is the numbers addicts like this nimrod and others as Bill James that have really developed a decline in this game primarily targeted for kids but has been hijacked by the corporate profiteers diverting incomes from workers into a funnel they can enjoy through sport marketing. baseball is so boring that only massive financial incentive and pay entices anyone to play the game and increasingly the American pastime is made up of dirt poor Caribbean and Latin player imported and this should be data and relevancy how irrelevant baseball is in this day of age.

this lame book is full of stories of numbers addicted men like Lee who feel the math is as if not more important than the sport in general and the projection of a players statistics into the most irrelevant obscure conjunction is celebrate by Alan in this book called "The Numbers game". This book is about as interesting as a college textbook on calculus and few sports fan would care to read this crap of a book feeling the loggerheads keeping track of every little detail in the game and players approach is an electric passion to be shared by all that follow the sport or standings. More and more the math quizzes and memorization obsession of the game is drawing more and more american sport fans to follow European soccer or other leagues of the true football. The numbers whiz kids of America hate soccer because of its inability to analyze progress and numbers. FC Barcelona will continue to be the worlds most popular team and soccer the sport as Americans study their diamond game looking at numbers and recalling recollections of their father and their fathers father over events of some boring game in 1961.