Edwin Amenta

Edwin Amenta is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine.

Thu, 04/18/2019 - 12:02
Statistics Ruined Baseball by Perfecting It Tanking a team to the top and other moneyball strategies
Thu, 04/18/2019 - 12:02
Ever since sportswriter Henry Chadwick popularized the box score in the 19th century, baseball fans have had a love affair with statistics. Many can recite records like Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Rickey Henderson’s 130 stolen bases, or…