For James, the story was in the statistics, but his ambition was to make good literature. Louis Cardinals, James was in Kansas City trying to change how baseball people watched, played, and thought about America’s favorite pastime-with numbers, yes, but more so with words. Back when Willie McGee was stealing bases for the St. “When the numbers acquire the significance of language,” says Bill James, “they acquire the power to do all of the things which language can do: to become fiction and drama and poetry.” James is a fellow baseball lover and numbers nerd. At least, it is not an essay about Bill James any more than Moby-Dick is a book about whales. This is not an essay about Bill James, though. And in the cyclical way that knowledge begets affection, and vice versa, I also began to see why those numbers meant so much to me. Suddenly, I saw the mechanics of the working thing at rest-not just what certain numbers on the back of a baseball card meant, but how they had come to mean. Learning to keep score was like learning to diagram a sentence, though.
I could see his 56 stolen bases and 18 triples and know from the numbers alone that McGee ran the bases both aggressively and fast. 503 slugging percentage, the league-leading 216 hits. I could look at the statistics on the back of Willie McGee’s 1986 Topps® card and explain why he won the National League MVP in 1985: the. I had been playing baseball and collecting baseball cards for over half my life, so I already spoke baseball and read baseball, both quite well.
It was also where I became fluent in my second language. I turned in my scorecards at the office at the end of each game and, in exchange for my labor, received a complimentary hot dog and a slushie of my choice. For two or three games each night during the summer, I tracked, with pencil and paper, every groundout to second base (4-3), hit by pitch (HBP), error on the shortstop (E6), wild pitch (WP), walk (BB), strikeout swinging (K), strikeout looking (ꓘ), double play (6-4-3, 4-6-3, 2-3-4, etc.), and more. Without so much as a routine interview, the fine folks at the Babe Ruth baseball park in my hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas, hired me to be a scorekeeper. I got my first job when I was ten years old. “One man in charge, no committees, no crap. “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” Paizo Inc.“Baseball statistics, unlike the statistics in any other area, have acquired the powers of language.” Fannin, Leo Glass, Patrick Hurley, Avi Kool, Erik Mona, Ianara Natividad, Kieran Newton, Lu Pellazar, Simone D. Sallé, Shay Snow, and Vic WertzĪRT DIRECTION Kyle Stanley Hunter and Sonja Morris GRAPHIC DESIGN Emily Crowell CREATIVE DIRECTOR James Jacobs DIRECTOR OF GAME DESIGN Jason Bulmahn PROJECT MANAGER Glenn Elliott PUBLISHER Erik Mona Magical Essences Treatise Schools of Magic Treatise Magical Backgrounds Rare Magical Backgrounds Table of Contents IntroductionĄ 1 Essentials of MagicĭESIGN LEAD Logan Bonner DESIGNERS Logan Bonner, James Case, Michael Sayre, and Mark Seifter Elementalism, geomancy, shadow magic, rune magic, and pervasive magic that alters the entire game world-it’s all here in Pathfinder Secrets of Magic! Choose from over 200 new spells with options for all spellcasters, excavate new magic items, and dive into lore that explores the mysteries of magic in detail. Sidebar: Maguc Regiments & Eidolon Boundingĭiscover the untold potential of magic! Create a unique and powerful spellcaster using the new magus and summoner classes. Sidebar: Targeting Companions and Eidolons Sidebar: Notes from the Green Faith Council Sidebar: Hymn to the Eternal Rose & Rovagug’s Call
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