Baseball Detective: Unraveling the Mystery of the Batting Order [Kindle Edition]

David Martinez (Author)

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Product Description

Can a baseball manager construct a perfect lineup that maximizes each batter’s skills, minimizes their deficiencies, and squeezes every last ounce of offense out of his batting order?

That's the question examined in "Baseball Detective: Unraveling the Mystery of the Batting Order." Written by David H. Martinez, SABR member and author of the critically praised "The Book of Baseball Literacy" (now in its third edition and available as an ebook), this 5,000-word ebook surveys the latest research on this fascinating topic, including computer simulations from academic researchers and real-life examples from the past two decades.

If you've ever wondered whether you could do better than your local team's manager, you must read this book.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 133 KB
• Publisher: Homerunweb Books (March 17, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004SP1G5Q
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,059 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #9 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Baseball > Statistics
  • #19 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Baseball > Essays & Writings

More About the Author

David H. Martinez has worked as a worked as a radio reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area, sports broadcaster for the University of California at Berkeley, and copywriter in the Silicon Valley for such companies as Apple Inc. and Logitech International. But his biggest love has always been baseball. A member of the sport's largest and most influential historical organization, the Society for American Baseball Research, Martinez reads extensively on the game and owns an expansive baseball library.

He is the author of three editions "The Book of Baseball Literacy" (Plume, 1996; iUniverse, 2000; Kindle ebook, 2011) a compendium of baseball lore for all varieties of fans. History professor Doug Bisson of Belmont University (Nashville, Tenn.) assigned the book to students of his summer course on baseball history. And reviewers praised it as "instructive and fun" (Chicago Sun-Times), "thoroughly enjoyable" (Booklist), and "A must for any baseball library" (Seth Swirsky, author of Baseball Letters and Every Pitcher Tells a Story). He is also the author of the short ebook "Baseball Detective: Unraveling the Mystery of the Batting Order."

Martinez earned his bachelor's degree in English at U.C. Berkeley, and he makes his home in San Jose, California, with his wife, daughter, and son.