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Every At-Bat Counts: A Kid's Guide to Baseball Stats
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The score says who won. The numbers say what happened.
Young ballplayers already live in a world of stats - they check the scoring app after every game and know their batting average before their parents do. What nobody gives them is a book that explains, at their level, what those numbers actually mean.
Every At-Bat Counts is that book. Written by a UCLA business school professor who is also a baseball dad - it teaches players ages 8 and up to read the seven numbers that tell the real story of every game:
- Batting Average, On-Base Percentage, Slugging, and OPS for hitters
- Strike Percentage, WHIP, and ERA for pitchers
Every chapter follows the same kid-friendly rhythm: a story, the stat, simple math with friendly numbers, then a real number to find on their own stat page. No math beyond counting and simple division.
But the numbers are only half the book. Along the way, young readers build habits most adults in the bleachers never master:
- A fair comparison always asks out of how many chances?
- One bad game proves nothing - a coin-flip experiment they run themselves proves it
- The scorebook itself says errors behind a pitcher aren't all on him
- Stats are for getting better - never for making a teammate feel worse
With 12 short chapters, more than 40 illustrations and charts, a chapter-by-chapter stat collection to earn, hands-on activities, and a one-page cheat sheet of every formula, Every At-Bat Counts turns the wall of letters on a stat page into a story any young player can read.
Perfect for players 8+, and for the parents and coaches who field their questions. The young readers' companion to Baseball Statistics Primer: The Building Blocks of Analytics.
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