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* It doesn't Happen Every Spring

November 17, 2008

from Library Journal.com, this “prepub Alert: McCarthy, Matt. Odd Man Out: A Season on the Mound with Minor League Baseball’s Most Unlikely Pitcher. Viking. Mar. 2009. 320p. ISBN 978-0-670-02070-6. $25.95. It’s not every Yale molecular biophysics major who ends up playing baseball professionally. McCarthy, currently interning at New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, here recounts a season […]

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* A head for managing?

April 1, 2008

Today’s NY Times‘ science section features an interview with Dr. Steve C. Wang, a mathematician at Swartmore College who has developed a “statistical Mr. Potato Head to portray the spectrum of managerial characteristics…” His chart mirrors his findings that “facial characteristics can communicate distinctions with striking clarity. By turning rates of bunting, stealing and pinch-hitting […]

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