Posts tagged "baseball"

Earlier I used small multiples to show how each Major League Baseball team's 2016 season progressed relative to the .500 line. Here are those same line charts, but this time... Read more →

I live in South Korea, where it isn't always easy to watch American baseball (unless you're a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Texas Rangers). So I'm catching... Read more →

Last week I attended a day-long session with Edward Tufte, the "Leonardo Di Vinci of data," as The New York Times once dubbed him. The session has inspired me to... Read more →

Washington Nationals fans have all seen the spectacle, the fourth-inning "race" featuring the Mount Rushmore mascots: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. They trot around the stadium wearing period... Read more →

Turns out game-ending home runs — like last night’s centerfield shot by St. Louis Cardinals infielder David Freese — are more common than I imagined. There have been nearly 3,000... Read more →