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Effectively Wild Episode 1975: Backdoor Curve

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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My First Job Was Working in Major League Baseball

"I grew up with a terminal in the dining room that was connected to the mainframe at the university. I learned Fortran and BASIC to help me do my math homework," he says. "My dad was just a sort of wonderful quantity almost on the autism spectrum, but classical music really appealed to him especially Bach." Greg's first job was working in Major League Baseball. He also worked for Sports Illustrated when they invented Rotistory League.

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