Article: Shame on baseball's Hall of Fame

Article: Fund Spy: A Great Batting Average for Our Fund Analyst Picks.
Morningstar Column (Morningstar);  September 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ......winning funds is a weighted batting average that shows how often...peers. To arrive at the batting average, I weighted the data...that was a pick for two years. Because providing you...to our pans, only the batting average tells you what percentage...ending June 30, 2006. Our ...

Article: Fund Spy: A Solid Batting Average for Our Fund Analyst Picks.
Morningstar Column (Morningstar);  January 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......companies. To measure our success I use a weighted batting average that measures whether funds outperformed their peer...I mean that a fund that has been a pick for five years would receive more weight in the batting average than one that has been on our picks list for only...Adding in ...

Article: State-of-the-Art Stats: Forget about batting average--that's so over. Today's big-leaguers are measured by fancier formulas.
Newsweek;  March 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Largely because Epstein, just 29 years old, is turning to sophisticated...century-old standards like batting average, home runs and runs batted...scary being at the table. For years I've expressed opinions and...kid will look like in eight years just haven't been good enough...conspicuous ...

Article: GETTING BETTER WITH AGE GWYNN, 35, ADJUSTS TECHNIQUE AT PLATE, WATCHES LIFETIME BATTING AVERAGE GO UP.(Sports)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 17, 1996 ;     700+ words ......mountain. Gwynn's lifetime batting average was .327 entering the 1993...394 and .368 the past three years. Gwynn, who turns 36 on May...last year. After five straight years with no more than 29 doubles...41, 35 and 33 the past three years. And he had nine homers last...

Article: BASEBALL; PLAYER'S ULTIMATE FIGHT IS BETWEEN HIS GPA AND BATTING AVERAGE
Dayton Daily News;  May 28, 2004 ;     408 words ......doing well CENTERVILLE - Keeping his batting average above his grade-point average has...the 23-3 Elks, he will take a .464 batting average into today's Division I regional semifinals...Eastern Division team. "Keeping my batting average up was harder than keeping my grades...

Article: Power finally on display: Doubleheader split helps West Virginia raise batting average to .237
Charleston Daily Mail;  May 16, 2005 ;     672 words ......these April downpours: * A .210 team batting average; * Only 58 runs in 22 games; * Just...all defeats; * The highest April batting average for a regular was shortstop Alcides...Appalachian Power Park to raise its batting average to .237 - the highest it's been all...

Article: Oh, by the way Michael, Simon's got a better batting average than you as well.(Sport)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  January 7, 2005 ;     73 words ......camp in South Africa. But Simon Jones actually has a better batting average in the Tests against the Proteas than Michael Vaughan! Glam...the four innings he has batted. That record gives Jones a batting average of 16. Vaughan, who has batted six times, has only managed...

Article: SEVERSON BATTING AVERAGE STILL WELL ABOVE .600 \ SENIOR OF ALSO LEADS TEAM IN RBIS.(Sports)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  May 6, 2005 ;     594 words ......of the regular season with a .667 batting average that was 88 points higher than any...player to finish the season with a batting average above the .600 mark. The top single-seas...said. The recent dip in Severson's batting average has a lot to do with the scouting...

Article: NEED A BATTING AVERAGE IN A HURRY? IT'S IN THE BOOK
Evansville Courier & Press;  July 8, 2005 ;     522 words ......Sporting News more than 30 years ago. It's small, roughly...held together well over the years, probably because it was...For example, to find a batting average, look for a batter's total...two columns meet is the batting average. So a person who has 11...player's up-to-the-moment ...

Article: Damion Creel leads OAC in batting average
Call and Post (Cleveland);  May 22, 1997 ;     385 words ......22-1997 Damion Creel leads OAC in batting average In a record-breaking season for the...Ohio Athletic Conference's leader in batting average. Creel belted 49 hits in 114 at bats...50 hits in 127 at bats for a .394 batting average. Zelenak, a senior infielder, belted...

Article: Bogus batting average?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Computer Shopper;  February 1, 2004 ;     181 words ......Bill and Alice say New York Yankee Derek Jeter's .324 batting average means he gets a hit only one-third of the time at bat, so...pretty good standing. Wouldn't that be equivalent to a .033 batting average, and a much more dismal average than Jeter's? No wonder...

Article: SU Morales watches batting average drop 100 points in 4 weeks
University Wire;  March 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......leave her bat right now. Morales hopes to improve her batting average when the Orange face Villanova and Rutgers this weekend...her last 40 at-bats, spanning the last 15 games. Her batting average has plunged more than a hundred points, from .318 on...big-headed sense, but I've (batted No. 3) the ...

Article: M'S ARE FIRST IN ONE SPOT HITTING SURGE GIVES SEATTLE AL LEAD IN BATTING AVERAGE.(Sports)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ......have moved to the top of the pack in batting average in the American League. An average...an improvement of 12 points. But batting average isn't the most significant offensive...teams that were in front of them in batting average. FEIERABEND TO START: Left-hander...

Article: Sizemore pulling weight: Batting average down, but he's still finding ways to get on base.
Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH);  May 15, 2007 ;     593 words ......Grady Sizemore has yet to catch fire at the plate. His .239 batting average is not where he or Indians manager Eric Wedge wants it to...trying to hit pitchers' pitches. You can't just look at the batting average with Grady, Wedge said. He's still getting on base and getting...