Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak

In sports there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Joe DiMaggios fifty-six-game hitting streak was magical. The three-point shot is an essential part of NBA basketball. Babe Ruth shouldnt have attempted to steal second base in the ninth inning of the 1926 World Series. Scientist and researcher Sheldon Hirsch has taken a decidedly unorthodox approach to sports history. He looks at myths, legends, conventional wisdom, shibboleths, and firm convictions of all kinds that sports lovers hold to be true, and demonstrates how analysis of facts and figures disproves what traditionand sportswriterswould have us believe. Divided into three parts, on baseball, basketball, and football, Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggios Streak contains enough clear-sightedness and shocking conclusions to delight any sports lover.