F. C. Lane

American sportswriter and editor

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In sabermetrics: Early analytic efforts
…Baseball Magazine about 1911, writer F.C. Lane began railing about the inadequacy of batting average as an indicator of performance. As Lane noted, it made little sense to count a single the same as a home run, and eventually he devised his own (generally accurate) values for singles, doubles, triples,…
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