Baseball / Analytics
Death By Data
A blistering reckoning with the analytics revolution that turned the national pastime into a spreadsheet — and the men who refuse to let it.
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EXPLORING
THE HIDDEN
COST OF
PROGRESS
Independent books exploring baseball, culture, technology, and the hidden costs of modern systems.
“A must-read for anyone who cares about the soul of the game.”
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Chapter II✦
The Cost
Exploring the hidden price of automation, commodification, and the data obsession redefining baseball.
Explore The Cost→The CatalogueFEATURED
FEATURED
books
Two titles. Two reckonings. Each one a hardcover argument for the world we want.
Romantic Satire
Swipe Wright
A neon-soaked send-up of love in the age of algorithms. Sharper than a left-swipe, warmer than a match notification.
Read More →Est. 1869
IMMORTALS
Nine figures who embody the soul of the game. Trusted to never be forgotten.
1820–1892
Alexander Cartwright
Father of the game
1814–1899
Daniel “Doc” Adams
Architect of the rules
1832–1882
William Hulbert
Founder, National League
1850–1915
A.G. Spalding
Pitcher, builder, evangelist
1864–1931
Ban Johnson
Founder, American League
1862–1956
Connie Mack
The Tall Tactician
1862–1935
Billy Sunday
Outfielder turned preacher
1879–1930
Rube Foster
Father of Black baseball
1960–1975
Juan Marichal
The Dominican Dandy
Read about these immortals in Death By Data: How Analytics and Technology Are Killing Baseball — 2nd Edition.
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The Journal · Vol. 01ESSAYS FROM
ESSAYS FROM
the dugout
Longform writing on baseball, culture, analytics, scouting, technology, and the slow patient American story underneath all of it.
Analytics
The Spreadsheet Has No Heart
How a generation of front offices traded gut for grid — and lost something the numbers can't measure.
“The scout sees the man. The model sees the matrix.”
12 min readRead essay →
Culture
Texas, Twilight, and the Long Inning
Notes from a high school diamond in Waxahachie, where the game still belongs to the kids playing it.
8 min readRead essay →
Scouting
What the Radar Gun Can't Tell You
A field report on the dying art of seeing — and the men who still trust their own eyes.
15 min readRead essay →
Americana
The Last Box Score
An elegy for newspaper agate type, the morning ritual, and the slow death of shared attention.
6 min readRead essay →