The Hidden Game of Baseball
The Hidden Game of Baseball is a book by baseball statisticians
baseball history.[citation needed
]
Overview
Thorn and Palmer began collaborating on an encyclopedia under the working title Complete Baseball, but could not meet the publisher's schedule. Instead, they began working on a smaller work focused on sabermetrics.Total Player Rating, a direct ancestor to Wins Above Replacement (WAR).[4] It is also credited with popularizing the use of run expectation tables in baseball analysis.[5]
The book received critical praise at the time of its publication,[6] and has since been reprinted.[7]
See also
- The Hidden Game of Football, book on football statistics by Thorn and Palmer
- Baseball Abstract, book on sabermetrics by Bill James
- Total Baseball
References
- ^ John Thorn and Pete Palmer, with David Reuther, The Hidden Game of Baseball, 1984. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1984
- ^ Thorn, John (April 20, 2015). "The Hidden Game of Baseball, 2015". MLB.com.
- ISBN 978-0-465-00373-0.
- ^ [John Thorn, Pete Palmer, with David Reuther, The Hidden Game of Baseball Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, p. x.
- ISBN 978-0-465-00373-0.
- ISSN 0196-6324.
- ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
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