The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Entailment: Focusing on the LIFE IS A BASEBALL GAME Metaphor

2019 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 107-130
Author(s):  
Youngju Choi
Keyword(s):  
Baseball Game ◽  
Game Metaphor

scholarly journals Sabermetría y nuevas tendencias en el análisis estadístico del juego de béisbol (Sabermetrics and new trends in statistical analysis of baseball)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 122-127
Author(s):  
César Soto Valero ◽  
Mabel González Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Baseball Game ◽  
Objective Evidence ◽  
Individual Value

La sabermetría es reconocida actualmente como una tendencia novedosa en el estudio del juego de béisbol. Con mucho auge y utilización en el análisis empírico, esta se basa en el estudio estadístico riguroso de la evidencia objetiva obtenida durante el juego. Teniendo en cuenta tanto sus aportes teóricos como prácticos, la sabermetría se fundamenta en una constante búsqueda por comprender cómo jugar mejor y más eficientemente al béisbol, lo cual se expresa y soporta mediante un tipo de análisis de actuación único entre todos los deportes colectivos. El presente trabajo aborda los aspectos esenciales de la sabermetría, fundamentando la necesidad de su surgimiento y utilización, como una forma de perfeccionar la manera en que tradicionalmente se ha llevado a cabo el análisis estadístico en el béisbol. Además, se brinda un resumen de los estadísticos sabermétricos más utilizados, tanto de bateo y picheo como otros de valor individual para el equipo, con el propósito de hacer más clara su comprensión, estudio y posterior utilización entre los seguidores de este deporte.Abstract. Sabermetrics is recognized as a new trend in the study of baseball game. This is based on the rigorous statistical study of the objective evidence obtained and has been used extensively in its empirical analysis. Considering both theoretical and practical contributions, sabermetrics involves the constant quest of understanding how to play baseball better and more efficiently, which is expressed and supported by an exceptional type of analysis performance unique among all team sports. This paper describes the essential aspects of sabermetrics, pointing in the necessity of its emergence and use, as a way to improve the traditional statistical analysis of baseball. Moreover, a summary of the sabermetrics statistics most widely used is given. Both batting and pitching, as well as others of individual value for the team are stated throughout this work in order to make sabermetrics understanding, study and further use clearer among followers of this sport.

Baseball Game Attendance--Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shang Chun Ma ◽  
Kyriaki Kaplanidou
Keyword(s):  
Baseball Game ◽  
Game Attendance

Performing Issy

At Fault ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 203-216
Author(s):  
Sebastian D.G. Knowles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
Baseball Game ◽  
Boston Red Sox

The pedagogy of “outlaw teaching” is presented as a way of bringing risk into the classroom, as Joyce encourages us to do. Reading Ulysses aloud is one way of getting students to become familiar with risk-taking, and some tongue-in-cheek guidelines for such a reading are presented. An extended example of the benefits of such an approach is given with a reading of the “Night Lessons” chapter of Finnegans Wake, as a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals, sometime prior to the selling of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Issy, the writer of the footnotes in this chapter, is rearticulated through narrative voicing as a baseball announcer, and the section takes on new life through the admittedly strained analogy of an inning-by-inning analysis of 20 pages of Finnegans Wake. The value of the enterprise is in its method: the author is modeling an approach to centrifugal reading that transforms the Wake into a reading game.

scholarly journals The Impact of Temperature on Major League Baseball

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Lee D. Koch ◽  
Anna K. Panorska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cold Weather ◽  
Baseball Game ◽  
Batting Average ◽  
Warm Weather ◽  
Major League ◽  
National League ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Major League Baseball is played from the beginning of April through the end of October each year, encompassing three of the four meteorological seasons: spring, summer, and fall. The 30 teams play in cities across the United States and Canada in many types of weather. This work studies the impact of temperature on a Major League Baseball game by examining the association between temperature and several Major League Baseball game statistics, including runs scored, batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, home runs, walks, strikeouts, hit-batsmen, stolen bases, and errors. Data from 22 215 games, spanning the 2000–11 regular seasons, were studied. Temperature was categorized as “cold,” “average,” and “warm.” Analyses were performed on the following populations: all Major League Baseball games, games played in the National League, games played in the American League, and games played in 23 different stadiums that are currently being used by Major League Baseball teams. Home and away teams' performances were analyzed separately for each population of games. The results of this study show that runs scored, batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and home runs significantly increase while walks significantly decrease in warm weather compared to cold weather.

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