The Baseball Economist
The Real Game Exposed
$53.02
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2008
Summary
Freakonomics meets Moneyball in this provocative expose of baseball’s most fiercely debated controversies and some of its oldest, most dearly held myths.Providing far more than a mere collection of numbers, economics professor and popular blogger J.C. Bradbury shines the light of his economic thinking on baseball, exposing the power of tradeoffs, competition, and incentives. Utilizing his own “sabernomic” approach, Bradbury dissects baseball topics such as-. Did steroids have nothing to do wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780452289024 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0452289025 |
| Author: | J.C. Bradbury |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 140mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
J.C. Bradbury
J.C. Bradbury is an economist and the author of Hot Stove Economics- Understanding Baseball’s Second Season and The Baseball Economist- The Real Game Exposed. He is the department chair at Kennesaw State University’s Department of Exercise Science and Sports Management in Atlanta, Georgia.
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