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ACkNOWLEDGMENTS Many practitioners, colleagues, friends, and sports industry mavens have been enormously helpful to us in the preparation of this book. In particular , we would like to thank Ben Alamar, Jim Albert, Sandy Alderson, Dave Allen, TJ Barra, Dave Berri, Roger Blair, Dave Cameron, Will Carroll, James Click, Daniel Cohen, Mark Cuban, Frank Deford, Christina DePasquale, Paul DePodesta, Dan Duquette, Meaghan Fileti, Adam Fisher, Sarah Gelles, Jessica Gelman, Gary Gillette, Wyc Grousbeck, Dave Heeren, John Henry, Nick Horton, Bill James, Shane Jensen, Michael Kalt, Ari Kaplan, Stan Kasten, Ken Kovash, Jonathan Kraft, Keith Law, Randy Levine, Mickey Lichtman, Chris Long, Larry Lucchino, Rob Manfred, Chris Marinak, Trent McCotter, Daryl Morey, Dan Okrent, Dean Oliver, Pete Palmer, Chris Picardo, James Piette, John Ricco, Dan Rosenbaum, Dan Rosencheck, Ken Rosenthal, Steve Ross, Skip Sauer, Alan Schwarz, Mark Shapiro, Nate Silver, Mark Simon, Dave Smith, Stacey Solliday, Charles Steinberg, John Thorn, Tom Tippett, Tom Verducci, Earl Weaver, and Frank Westhoff. We are especially grateful to Jim Logue and Tom Tango, who provided careful comments on our entire manuscript. More generally, we would like to thank all those in the sports industry who have unselfishly shared their time, expertise, anecdotes, and passion with us over the years. We would also like to lovingly thank our families, Cory, Maggie, Don, Polly, Jeanne, Shelley, Alex, Ella, Jeff and Mike, for supporting us through our distractions and preoccupations while working on this project. ...

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