It’s October and Chicago playoff baseball is under way, so that means my statistical hat is fit snugly atop my head.
Allowing my numerical passions to run wild again is Daily Herald sports editor Tom Quinlan, who began publishing my “By The Numbers” baseball blurbs on the Cubs and White Sox in today’s newspaper.
My numbers-related writing dates back to August 1997, toward the end of my eight years at The Courier News in Elgin, Ill., when I began writing a weekly “By the Numbers” column. It was later syndicated by Copley News Service, and served as the springboard for my numeracy training program called “Go Figure: Making Numbers Count.”
Along the way, I had a stats column for Sports Illustrated For Kids and developed the Home Run Power Ratio, an inflation index for home runs.
This is the fourth time over the past six Octobers that the Daily Herald has allowed me to be a part of their baseball post-season coverage.
On the Herald‘s website, you can read the first round of figures I came up with in connection with the Chicago Cubs and their Game 1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, as well as previewing the Chicago White Sox’s Game 1 clash with the Tampa Bay Rays this afternoon.
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