Baseball is a wonderful sport for so many reasons. For some people, there is nothing like being at the ballpark, taking in the sights and smells with a hot dog in hand. Others live and die on the performance of their team.
For me though, baseball is most wonderful because it produces beautifully random statistical gems. Like the one where 20,421 batters face Greg Maddux in his career and only 310 of them see a 3-0 count, 177 of which were intentional walks. Or the slightly more complicated projection that Barry Bonds’ historic .