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The strange thing about the sabermetric revolution—the period, beginning in the late 1970s, when average Americans had access to statistics about baseball, and used those statistics to analyze general managers’ decisions—was that it took a long time for this new knowledge to influence the actual management of professional baseball. Amateur players and baseball fans loved studying statistics, but the actual general managers of sports franchises continued with the same strategies they’d used for decades previously.
Lewis doesn’t give one clear reason why general managers ignored sabermetrics for so long. Perhaps there was a strong anti-intellectual bias in the sports world…