from hits. He determined terms such as battery, double play, fastball and
breaking ball. He also represented strikeouts in letter K.
Due to his great involvement and achievements in development of
modern baseball statistics, Chadwick was the first baseball reporter to get
honored in the hall of fame. President Roosevelt dubbed him a father of
baseball.
Chadwick contrived countless concepts in baseball that people still use,
and proposed boxscores that played an important role in developing a
baseball to a game of statistics. Without Chadwick’s effort, we might be
still using a primitive way of recording baseball with only hits and outs.
// Sabermetric Revolution
Sabermetrics the application of statistical analysis to baseball records,
especially in order to compensate for the poor part of the existing
baseball record, and to attempt a more academic and in-depth approach
evaluating the performance of individual players. It was created to
completely deny the existing ballistic player evaluation theory and to
make a more objective evaluation of baseball players.
A baseball writer and historian, Bill James was the developer of
"sabermetrics". Bill James was born in 1949, in Holton, Kansas.^8 He
attended University of Kansas, but soon James joined the army in 1971.
He first volunteered to participate in the Vietnam war but instead he was
stationed in South Korea for two years. He entered graduate school after
leaving the United States Army, and he also started to do night shifts as a
security guard at the Stokely-Van Camp's pork and beans cannery. On