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- 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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