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Market Efficiency And Rationality: The Peculiar Case Of Baseball, Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Market Efficiency And Rationality: The Peculiar Case Of Baseball, Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Michigan Law Review
In this lively book, Michael Lewis explores a topic that would seem of interest only to sports fans: how Billy Beane, the charismatic general manager of the Oakland Athletics, turned his baseball team around using, of all things, statistics. What next - an inspirational tale about superior database management? But there are some general lessons in Lewis's book that make it worth the attention of people who do not know the difference between a slider and a screwball (a group that, unfortunately, includes many lawyers and law professors). Those lessons have to do, above all, with the limits of human …
The Barry Bonds Baseball Case—An Empirical Approach—Is Fleeting Possession Five Tenths Of The Ball?, Peter Adomeit
The Barry Bonds Baseball Case—An Empirical Approach—Is Fleeting Possession Five Tenths Of The Ball?, Peter Adomeit
Saint Louis University Law Journal
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The Barry Bonds Baseball Case - An Empirical Approach - Is Fleeting Possession Five Tenths Of The Ball?, Peter Adomeit
The Barry Bonds Baseball Case - An Empirical Approach - Is Fleeting Possession Five Tenths Of The Ball?, Peter Adomeit
Faculty Scholarship
Mr. Barry Bonds hit his record seventy-third home run on October 7, 2001. Mr. Alex Popov was smart enough to be in the standing room only area at San Francisco's Pacific Bell Park behind the right field bleachers known as the Arcade, where Mr. Bonds had hit many of his home runs. Mr. Popov was lucky enough to be located almost precisely where the ball was hit, needing only to take one step back. He also had brought a softball glove to the park, as well as a small earbud radio on which he could listen to the play-by-play of …
Increasing The Inherent Risks Of Baseball: Liability For Injuries Associated With High-Performance Non-Wood Bats In Sanchez V. Hillerich & (And) Bradsby Co., Amanda M. Winfree
Increasing The Inherent Risks Of Baseball: Liability For Injuries Associated With High-Performance Non-Wood Bats In Sanchez V. Hillerich & (And) Bradsby Co., Amanda M. Winfree
Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal
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