The Girl of Summer

Being a baseball geek used to be so simple. You’d open the newspaper and flip to the box scores. If you wanted to get really in-depth about it, you’d go to the store and buy a package of baseball cards disguised as bubblegum. But yesteryear’s gum-popping fans have morphed into numbers-crunching nuts. There are innumerable cases in point, but here’s the one that presently applies: Baseball Prospectus. It’s probably not too farfetched to say that the guys — and gal — at this wildly popular subscription Web site have more data at their disposal than did Ike before the Normandy landings. The OCD gal in question is co-editor/co-founder Christina Kahrl, who unveils the gang’s new doctoral thesis on stats and steroids, Baseball Prospectus 2008: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Baseball Season.
Sat., March 8, 2 p.m., 2008