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Here's a preview of our coverage of Alan Schwarz's Learning Annex talk about his book The Numbers Game this past Saturday at the Rogers Centre:

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The text of the overhead is a lot of fun to read.

Thomas' writeup of the event should be gracing the Box near the end of the week, along with more photographs like this one.

Click here to see the previous photos of the day.

Posted by Named For Hank on Monday, June 20 2005 @ 12:00 PM EDT.
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Willy - Monday, June 20 2005 @ 08:09 PM EDT (#120092) #
I remember from the earlier chat thread with Mr. Schwartz that he said The Baseball Encyclopedia (1969) was the time at which baseball stats first became widely available to interested readers.

I wonder if he knew of Hy Turkin and S.C. Thompson, eds. The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball. Jubilee Edition. (N.Y.: Barnes, 1951)? Full of stats. Kept me engrossed as a gradeschooler.
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Named For Hank - Monday, June 20 2005 @ 10:53 PM EDT (#120101) #
I don't have the book handy, but my memory of it is telling me that the date is much earlier than 1969 for the first big baseball reference stats book.
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