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Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life

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Baseball Is a Magnification of the Competitive Society

In the early days of base ball, when baseball players didn't earn a lot of money, you had to have a second job. The intensity of the competition was not at the same level as it is now. And so that effect is just that the very worst players on the worst teams now are much better than they were 100 years ago. It just like reduces the disparity between the best and the worst.

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