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History and Origin of Sabermetrics

• 1940's and 1950's - Branch Rickey hires Allan Roth as team statistician.

• 1964 - Earnshaw Cook, Percentage Baseball

• 1960's-1980's - Earl Weaver builds a three-run home run offense

• 1971 - Bob Davids founds SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)

• 1970's-1989 - Bill James, working at Van Camp pork and beans as a night watchman starts writing the Baseball Abstracts (1980-1989) (coins sabermetrics)

• 1985 - John Thorn and Pete Palmer, Hidden Game of Baseball

• 1998 or so - Billy Beane promoted by A's to GM

• 2003 - Michael Lewis writes Moneyball

• 2003-present - Probably 20+ teams now have a statistical consultant on staff

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