One Easter in the early '90s I was taken to a bookstore and allowed to pick out a book. For whatever reason I chose _One Knee Equals Two Feet_, the 1988 John Madden book. I absolutely devoured it. Seeing Madden on TV often reminded me of it. I still think about it. [1/N]
I watch ~zero sports these days; I'm sure I'm missing a lot (but programming is fun!). I think it's hard to separate this from a childhood as a baseball person? Other sports / modern versions of sports seem so advanced by comparison. [1/2]
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In baseball (as I knew it): (1) The game has mostly been bad at attracting and developing talent; (2) Passive / "default" coaching works fine; (3) So much lore was just wrong; (4) A lot of the real expertise is mechanical / inarticulable. [2/3]
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So by some imaginary metric Dawn Staley probably does more / more accurate / more impressive cultural + tactical + quantitative + psychological processing in a single day than Whitey Herzog did in his whole life. Anyway, she should do a book. [3/3]
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