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Sabermetrics in 1983

Excerpts from a Newsweek feature on Craig Wright, SABR, and the A's, Rangers, and White Sox starting to use sabermetric techniques in '83.

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One of the neat things in the article was the bit about using modems to send data on the Sox games from Chicago to a Philadelphia mainframe. You just don’t think of people having cross-country data lines 26 years ago, but they were around.

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