Sabermetrics: Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations offers an introduction to this increasing area of interest to statisticians, students of the game, and many others. Pairing a primer on the applied math with an overview of the origin of the field and its context within baseball today, the work provides an engaging resource for students and interested readers. It includes coverage of relevant baseball history, Bill James and SABR, broken records and steroids. Drawing on the author's experience teaching the subject at Seton Hall University since 1988, Sabermetrics also offers practice questions and solutions for class use. - Provides an accessible, brief introduction to the practice of sabermetrics - Approaches the topic in context with recent trends and issues in baseball - Includes questions and solutions for math practice

Gabriel B. Costa is currently a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and is on the faculty at Seton Hall. And is an engineer. He holds many titles and fills them with distinction. He has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology. He pioneered one of the first courses in Sabermetrics at West Point, and he has also co-authored two other Academic Press books with Richard Bronson, Matrix Methods, Third Edition, as well as with John T. Saccoman, Linear Algebra: Algorithms, Applications, and Techniques, Third Edition.

1. Is Baseball still the National Pastime?
2. Baseball before Steroids
3. Bill James and the Genesis of Sabermetrics
4. Doing the Math: A Sabermetrics Primer
5. The Annihilation of Records: Where have you gone, Babe Ruth?
6. The Effects of Steroids: Medical, Legal, Economic and Social
7. Baseball in 2021 and Beyond
8. Last Inning?