Oh, the curse!
David Runciman: A home run, 19 February 2004
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball
by Stephen Jay Gould.
Cape, 342 pp., £16.99, January 2004,0 224 05042 7 Show More
by Stephen Jay Gould.
Cape, 342 pp., £16.99, January 2004,
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis.
Norton, 288 pp., $24.95, June 2003,0 393 05765 8 Show More
by Michael Lewis.
Norton, 288 pp., $24.95, June 2003,
“... more great batsmen playing than at any other time in the sport’s history (Lara, Tendulkar, Hayden, Ponting, Gilchrist), they all find that an average of 60 runs per innings is the absolute limit of possible achievement. Whenever a player’s average rises above this magic number, they get vertigo and fall back. Bradman was not just 5, 10 or 20 per cent ... ”
