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While Harvard sports aficionados typically think of the Crimson’s star wide receiver when seeing the name Carl Morris in the sports pages, it is the former chair of the statistics department who was recently featured in a column on ESPN.com. A slightly frail-looking white-haired 62...
Morris says he developed the simple RPG formula over 20 years ago, but only began calling sportswriters to let them know about the statistic when he calculated that a team of nine 2002 Bondses would score an astronomical 22.4 runs per game—smashing the record held by Babe Ruth of 18.5 runs per nine innings in 1923. “What’s bugging me,” he says, “is that this incredible thing is happening and nobody notices. I wanted to make sure people knew it. Imagine if when Bonds...
Lofton grounds into a fielder’s choice, and Snow is thrown out at the plate. Any baseball fan knows this was bad for the Giants, but only Morris can say just how bad. “That guy cost them 0.8 runs,” he says. ?...
According to Michael Bonds, an ex-convict who now works with the community-based activism group BLACKOUTBoston, the government has many economic incentives to keep a large prison population.
“All of these people are getting paid off of crime and punishment,” Bonds said. “I’m not mad at them for making money, I’m mad at them for using people to make money—that...