Baseball Personal Statement

Growing up, two things in my household were certain: mathematics and baseball. Being the son of a mathematics and statistics professor, the subjects themselves were never in short supply; however, it was not the immediate exposure of statistics that instilled my love for the science; it was baseball. Every summer, my dad was the coach for the legion baseball team, and when I myself was not playing, I helped keep the book for my dad’s team. Baseball is one of those sports that is incredibly statistics driven. There is an entire science that is dedicated to the analysis of the sport called sabermetrics. When I had kept track of the book for my dad, the statistics that I had kept track of were: pitching efficiency, earned run average, batting