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Chargement... Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure (édition 2011)par Craig Robinson, Rob Neyer (Introduction)
Information sur l'oeuvreFlip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure par Craig Robinson
![]() Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. ![]() ![]() What is this? Art? Humor? Sports? Math? – or all of the above? With baseball season starting, I found it irresistible to recommend “Flip Flop Fly Ball”, which reminds me in some ways of the beautiful series of graphical exemplar books by Edward Tufte, and in others of Michael Lewis’ MoneyBall (the book, more than the movie, although the movie was ok). I suggest this for teachers of science because of the intimate relationship between baseball and statistics and because of the witty, inventive, and highly entertaining bar graphs, scatter plots, photographs, maps, Venn diagrams, and limited associated commentary. The author is an English artist who has fallen in love with the American pastime, not only in its US major league manifestation, but also in the minor leagues and the Mexican, Japanese, and Korean leagues. His entertaining blog has recently been commentaries on the Mexican league games he has been watching before the US “Opening Day”. Robinson apparently likes the “high socks” look (especially with stirrups), loves baseball history, Ted Williams, the Molina brothers, and quantitative comparisons and he hates “the wave”, steroid-enhanced players, the New York Yankees, baseball caps with the manufacturer’s sticker still attached, and John 3:16 signs. Did you know that Turner, Montana is the American town furthest from a major league team, or that there have been 32 players named Harris in the major leagues since 1880? ![]() aucune critique | ajouter une critique
How many miles does a baseball team travel in one season? How tall would A-Rod's annual salary be in pennies? What does Nolan Ryan have to do with the Supremes and Mariah Carey? You might never have asked yourself any of these questions, but Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Fly Ball will make you glad to know the answers. Baseball, almost from the first moment Robinson saw it, was more than a sport. It was history, a nearly infinite ocean of information that begged to be organized. He realized that understanding the game, which he fell in love with as an adult, would never be possible just through watching games and reading articles. He turned his obsession into a dizzyingly entertaining collection of graphics that turned into an Internet sensation. Out of Robinson's Web site, www.flipflopflyball.com, grew this book, full of all-new, never-before-seen graphics. Flip Flop Fly Ball dives into the game's history, its rivalries and absurdities, its cities and ballparks, and brings them to life through 120 full-color graphics. Statistics-the sport's lingua franca-have never been more fun. (By the way, the answers: about 26,000 miles, at least if the team in question is the 2008 Kansas City Royals; 3,178 miles; they were the artists atop the Billboard Hot 100 when Ryan first and last appeared in MLB games.) Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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