Well, here’s something you don’t see every day (baseball in Scientific American)

December 23, 2016

https://i2.wp.com/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FuzMhKUsL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg?resize=163%2C246&ssl=1I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing you can count the number of baseball books that get a review in Scientific American on one hand. But here you go: their take on Brian Kenny’s Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution.

Since baseball is a metaphor for life, writer Steve Mirsky compares some of the sport’s philosophy with things not usually associated with the national pastime.

Kenny’s description of information availability and decision making in baseball as a microcosm of the larger problem that a wide array of human enterprises face: insisting on remaining stupid when becoming smarter is an option.

My Bookshelf Conversation with Kenny wasn’t nearly so intellectual. My fault, of course.

(Actually a search of “baseball” on the SA site returns almost 1,000 hits.)

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