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Probability and Baseball

Before the popularization of sabermetrics in the late 1970’s, a good number of baseball statisticians and historians believed that Ty Cobb was the greatest player who ever lived. Winning twelve batting...

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Berman Chooses Best Baseball Players In New Book

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — With baseball playoffs underway, there’s always the question: who’s the best of the best? While some may say the question is too difficult to answer, sportscaster Len Berman...

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By The Numbers: The First Inductees

By Father Gabe Costa >>More Columns Charter Members of Baseball’s Hall of Fame Happy New Year! We can now say that “Pitchers and Catchers” will begin Spring Trainings next month in Florida and...

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Could Derek Jeter Pass Pete Rose As MLB’s All-Time Hits Leader?

NEW YORK (WFAN) – Derek Jeter has become the 28th player in MLB history to record 3,000 career hits. With hit No. 2,722 in September 2009, Jeter surpassed Lou Gehrig as the Yankees’ all-time hits...

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By The Numbers: MLB’s Top 10 Practically Unbreakable Records

By Father Gabe Costa » More Columns Numbers are fascinating. Mathematicians and statisticians love them. And, in a real sense, the only way to understand baseball is from a quantitative approach. In...

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By The Numbers: Double X: Jimmie Foxx

By Father Gabe Costa » More Columns James Emory Foxx. He was known as The Beast, but, by all accounts, he was a generous, kind and gentle individual. In print, writers reported his name as Jimmie Foxx,...

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By The Numbers: The Grey Eagle

By Father Gabe Costa » More Columns As we await the beginning of another baseball season, one of the things we do is to review the past year. We ponder such questions as: “What if my favorite players...

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By The Numbers: Introducing Baseball’s Cumulative Base Proficiency (CBP)

By Father Gabe Costa » More Columns I just felt like playing with some statistics, so I came up with what I’m calling the Cumulative Base Proficiency (CBP). I suspect this is not a new metric, but it...

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Baseball Icon Stan Musial Passes Away At 92

ST. LOUIS (CBSNewYork/AP) — Stan Musial, one of baseball’s greatest hitters and a Hall of Famer with the St. Louis Cardinals for more than two decades, died Saturday. He was 92. Stan the Man won seven...

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By The Numbers: Al Kaline Was The Ultimate Pro’s Pro

By Father Gabe Costa » More Columns Dedicated to Lieutenant colonel Michael Jaye (Retired, U.S. Army) Al Kaline always seemed like the ultimate professional.  Even though he played for the Detroit...

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By The Numbers: Who Was More Dominant — Babe Ruth Or Ty Cobb?

By Father Gabe Costa » More Columns Can we compare apples and oranges? Ty Cobb won 11 batting titles (BA) in 13 years while Babe Ruth copped 13 slugging (SLG) crowns in a 14-year stretch. No players in...

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By The Numbers: Listing The All-Time MLB Leaders

By Father Gabe Costa » More Columns For this installment of By The Numbers, I thought I would take a look at the all-time hitting and pitching leaders, just to get a feel for some of the numbers....

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Ty Cobb Bat To Be Auctioned During All-Star Week

DETROIT (AP) — A baseball bat given by Tigers legend Ty Cobb to Detroit’s postmaster will be auctioned off during All-Star week. The century-old, 34.5-inch bat used by “The Georgia Peach” is available...

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Giglio: With Social Media, Fans’ Voices Are Now Heard More Than Ever

By Joe Giglio » More Columns The world of sports media is growing by the day, hour and minute. From independent blogs to corporate-owned websites and media outlets, the ability to receive and share...

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Ichiro Joins Rare Company, Reaches Incredible Feat With 4,000th Hit

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — It’s one of the rarest and most impressive feats in all of sports. Ichiro Suzuki slashed a single the opposite way with his unique swing for the 4,000th hit of a career split...

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$1 Million Find: Family Discovers Ty Cobb Baseball Cards From Crumpled Paper...

LOS ANGELES (CBSNewYork/AP) — From a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house came a baseball-card find of a lifetime. Seven of them actually. Card experts in Southern California said Wednesday that...

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Boomer & Carton: A Hobby-Changing Discovery And Boomer’s Walk-In Safe

Subscribe to the Boomer & Carton Podcast » Seven rare Ty Cobb baseball cards were recently discovered and are expected to fetch a boat-load of money for the lucky owner. Boomer & Carton got to...

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