For the first time, an in-depth view of the ³Triple Revolution² that has transformed the game of baseball: scientific analysis of the game's movements, the use of new statistics to show the game's hidden patterns and the globalization of game's talent pool (today more than 50 percent of Major League players come from other countries). Using as background the moment-by-moment drama of the seventh game of the 2001 World Series between the Yankees and the Diamondbacks, Euchner reveals the hidden dimensions of baseball-from pitching motions and batting styles to base running, fielding, training and strategy.

Among the questions answered: What is the ideal pitching motion? How can we judge defensive performance? What makes managers succeed and fail? What changes the odds over the course of the game? The author uses extensive interviews with all the players from this classic game-including Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, Derek Jeter, Tino Martinez, Luis Gonzalez and Curt Schilling-as well as the game's coaches and managers, trainers and scouts, medical researchers and pioneers of statistical analysis. No other book provides such a comprehensive analysis of the game within the game.