Poor Toby's Almanac...The Old Man and the Sea
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"I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing, the old man said. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand." Ernest Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea , which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize 55 years ago today.
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The RBI: Bill James is smartest than the rest of us. The TV show 60 Minutes said so as much a ...
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T.R. Sullivan, statheads, and the RBI
Published 5/5/2008 by Adam J. Morris at Lone Star Ball: Front Page Posts
... T.R. Sullivan's blog entry from yesterday leads off with a lengthy paean to the RBI. And it got me thinking.
OBP seems to be the poster-stat for the ongoing stathead/traditionalist..."feud" is probably not the right word. Battle of paradigms? Or paradigae? Whatever the plural of paradigm is?
But even the anti-stathead types will acknowledge that OBP has some importance. OBP matters...there is just a differentiation of how important it is, how much weight should be put on it, compared to other stats.
But RBIs? The ...
