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The Very First Sabermetrician?

by Carson Cistulli

↵In discussion it is not so much weight of authority as force of argument that should be demanded.

↵↵That’s from Book One of Cicero’s De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), but could just as easily have been from one of Bill James’ earliest Abstracts.

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