Sports Journalist Alan Schwarz to Throw Out First Pitch
August 19, 2004 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Hudson Valley Renegades News Release
FISHKILL, NY (August 19, 2004) - The Hudson Valley Renegades, Class A Affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, today announced that Alan Schwarz will be throwing out the first pitch and signing his new book The Numbers Game, August 22nd, when the Renegades play the Williamsport Crosscutters.
Alan Schwarz's The Numbers Game (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press) became Amazon's No. 1 best-selling sports hard cover just weeks after its summer release.
Schwarz has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs across the country and lectured at several major colleges, including Harvard University.
Schwarz has covered baseball for the past 14 years, working for many of the most respected publications in sports media. Since 1991, he has been the Senior Writer of Baseball America magazine, for which he also has written a bi-weekly column for eight years. He also has written a weekly in-season column for ESPN.com since 2001 and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times since 1998.
About The Numbers Game
The book's stars are not statistics, but the stories of men (as well as women) obsessed with keeping and studying them for more than 150 years including, Henry Chadwick, the 19th-century evangelist of baseball statistics; military officers of the 1940s and â50s who modeled air-force strikes with concepts they gleaned from studying baseball's numbers and Bill James, whose Baseball Abstract series launched a baseball revolution; and dozens more. From the story of Topps baseball cards to the original making of The Baseball Encyclopedia (baseball's Oxford English Dictionary), The Numbers Game paints a history not just of baseball statistics but the soul of the sport itself.
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