Write A Narrative Essay On Sabermetrics

I live in a world of crazy numbers and fancy acronyms, the world of sabermetrics. Originally defined by Bill James in 1980, sabermetrics is "the search for objective knowledge about baseball", yet the term has grown into much, much more. Sabermetrics give ordinary people like me, the tools to predict the future, to forecast the worth of a human being with a couple of intricate formulas and a pinch of extrapolation. It appeared to be magic when I first learned about the masses of statistics associated with baseball. I was seven years old when my father started introducing me to his boxes upon boxes of old baseball cards. As glorious as the autographed cards of baseball greats, such as Barry Bonds and Dennis Eckersley, in action seemed, I was more mesmerized by the tidbits of facts found on the back …show more content…
These odd numbers would catch my attention and grasp it firmly to this day, although in a much more advanced way. During middle school lunchtime, it would always be a competition between me and my friends to convince each other that our favorite players were the best in the league. We would toss our elaborate jargon at each other seeing who could outwit whom, saying things like, "Andre Ethier has the highest OPS in the NL!" or "Mike Trout has put up WAR numbers that we've never seen before!" This year long dispute of baseball knowledge could only end one way, the official Punahou Fantasy Baseball League 2012. The league would be the start of a multitude of friendships and lessons, one of which would stick with me to this day. I couldn't afford to lose this battle of wits, for the hit to my pride would be too great. The trash talk and bragging had come to the point where all we could do was back it up with proof of our mountains of knowledge. I studied just like I would for a research paper,