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  • One of the most striking concepts in the book is that a lot of traditional baseball thinking, often summed up as "smallball" or "situational hitting" is wrong-headed.

    Market Failures in Everything: Baseball Edition 2007

  • One of the most striking concepts in the book is that a lot of traditional baseball thinking, often summed up as "smallball" or "situational hitting" is wrong-headed.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • People sometimes try to explain the difference between a team's Pythagorean winning percentage and their true winning percentage by the strength of that team's bullpen, baserunning, and "smallball" in general.

    Baseball Analysts 2009

  • People sometimes try to explain the difference between a team's Pythagorean winning percentage and their true winning percentage by the strength of that team's bullpen, baserunning, and "smallball" in general.

    Baseball Analysts 2009

  • People sometimes try to explain the difference between a team's Pythagorean winning percentage and their true winning percentage by the strength of that team's bullpen, baserunning, and "smallball" in general.

    Baseball Analysts 2009

  • People sometimes try to explain the difference between a team's Pythagorean winning percentage and their true winning percentage by the strength of that team's bullpen, baserunning, and "smallball" in general.

    Baseball Analysts 2009

  • People sometimes try to explain the difference between a team's Pythagorean winning percentage and their true winning percentage by the strength of that team's bullpen, baserunning, and "smallball" in general.

    Baseball Analysts 2009

  • They're going to have to, in baseball terms (I warned you) "play smallball."

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [133] -- The Silly Season Begins 2010

  • They're going to have to, in baseball terms I warned you "play smallball."

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [133] -- The Silly Season Begins Chris Weigant 2010

  • LOS ANGELES (AP) - With star post player Jessica Adair on the bench for much of the game and a step slow when she was in it, George Washington won with smallball.

    USATODAY.com - Women's Basketball - George Washington vs. Texas A&M 2006

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