DAY NINE - BASEBALL OFFICIATING Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Chapter 13 Rader, Chapter 8 Shaun McCready, Umpire School [PCCommon] “An Diary” Larry R. of at [also on PCCommon] Gerlach, “History Umpiring” Optional Readings: John Dowd, excerpts of Contents, and pp. 1-6, 216-225, and from “The Dowd Report,” Cover Sheet, Table and available at [PCCommon] “Agreement Resolution” Larry R. Gerlach, in The Men in Blue: Conversations with Umpires (Lincoln: University of “Emmett Ashford,” Nebraska Press, 1994), 265-287. [PCCommon] Keith Hernandez with Mike Bryan, excerpt from Pure Baseball in Baseball: A Literary Anthology, ed. Nicholas Dawidoff (Library of America, 2002), 707-711. [PCCommon] In-Class: Video: The Third Team DAY TEN - BASEBALL STATISTICS Required Readings: to at [also on PCCommon] Phil Birnbaum, “A Guide Sabermetric Research” Alan Schwarz, March of On-Base in The Numbers Game: Lifelong Fascination with “The Percentage,” Baseball’s Statistics (New York: Press, 2004), 215-233. [PCCommon] St. Martin’s Jules Tygiel, Mortar of Which Baseball Is Held Together: Henry Chadwick and the Invention of Baseball “The in Past Time: Baseball as History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 15-34, 224-227. Statistics” [PCCommon] Optional Readings: Roger Angell, in The Summer Game (New York: Viking Press, 1972), 3-5. [PCCommon] “Box Scores” Stephen Jay Gould, Extinction of the in The Armchair Book of Baseball, ed. John Thorn (New York: “The .400 Hitter,” Charles 1985), 144-151. [PCCommon] Scribner’s Sons, Michael Lewis, Science of Winning an Unfair in Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (New “The Game,” York: Norton, 2003), 119-137. [PCCommon] Baseball Research Journal 43 (Spring 2014), 7-12. [PCCommon] Andy McCue, “Allan Roth,” David of at [also on PCCommon] Nichols, “Expected Runs/Chances Scoring Table”
DAY NINE - BASEBALL OFFICIATING Required Readings: Cambridge Companion to Baseball, Chapter 13 Rader, Chapter 8 Shaun McCready, “An Umpire School Diary” [PCCommon] Larry R. Gerlach, “History of Umpiring” at [also on PCCommon] Optional Readings: John Dowd, excerpts from “The Dowd Report,” Cover Sheet, Table of Contents, and pp. 1-6, 216-225, and “Agreement and Resolution” available at [PCCommon] Larry R. Gerlach, “Emmett Ashford,” in The Men in Blue: Conversations with Umpires (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), 265-287. [PCCommon] Keith Hernandez with Mike Bryan, excerpt from Pure Baseball in Baseball: A Literary Anthology, ed. Nicholas Dawidoff (Library of America, 2002), 707-711. [PCCommon] In-Class: Video: The Third Team DAY TEN - BASEBALL STATISTICS Required Readings: Phil Birnbaum, “A Guide to Sabermetric Research” at [also on PCCommon] Alan Schwarz, “The March of On-Base Percentage,” in The Numbers Game: Baseball’s Lifelong Fascination with Statistics (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004), 215-233. [PCCommon] Jules Tygiel, “The Mortar of Which Baseball Is Held Together: Henry Chadwick and the Invention of Baseball Statistics” in Past Time: Baseball as History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 15-34, 224-227. [PCCommon] Optional Readings: Roger Angell, “Box Scores” in The Summer Game (New York: Viking Press, 1972), 3-5. [PCCommon] Stephen Jay Gould, “The Extinction of the .400 Hitter,” in The Armchair Book of Baseball, ed. John Thorn (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985), 144-151. [PCCommon] Michael Lewis, “The Science of Winning an Unfair Game,” in Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (New York: Norton, 2003), 119-137. [PCCommon] Andy McCue, “Allan Roth,” Baseball Research Journal 43 (Spring 2014), 7-12. [PCCommon] David Nichols, “Expected Runs/Chances of Scoring Table” at [also on PCCommon]
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