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Article: NEED A BATTING AVERAGE IN A HURRY? IT'S IN THE BOOK
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2005
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Jammed in among the reference books on my desk at work is a truly
ancient volume.
Its title is particularly strange: "Batting and Pitching Averages
at a Glance." There's no plot and no narrative, just page after page
of numbers listed in vertical and horizontal columns.
It is a book for figuring (almost instantly) baseball batting
averages and earned-run averages for pitchers. In the time before
hand-held calculators and personal computers, it was a godsend for
anyone needing those stats quickly and easily. But you have to go
back to 1967. That's when the book was published by The Sporting
News, which once called itself "the Bible of Baseball."