One acronym we should use more The Herald News - Joliet (IL) (12/1/2010)
...sure there is a real difference between acronyms and acrostics because they both seem...its PAT (point after touchdown) and baseball its RBI (run batted in) ... something for everything. Acronyms and acrostics can have relevance from global to very personal...Anyway, I ...

Weenies at the Ballgame; A frank look at baseball statisticians The Washington Post (8/23/2009)
...of the Society for American Baseball Research, or SABR, an acronym the group wisely chose over...funny and share my love of baseball. Where we diverge is in their...all those annoying, modern baseball computer metrics like WHIP...

The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics.(Book Review) The American Statistician (5/1/2005)
...maintained; he also emphasizes baseball's fervent resistance to these...to early attempts to bring baseball statistics and their rigorous...a compendium of historical baseball records for all major league...sabermetrics" by James, after the acronym SABR used ...

The Acronym as Accolade The Washington Post (5/12/1995)
...department in its own image. Without humanities, the center's acronym wouldn't be: National Center for HELMS. Faircloth's Life...of the House International Relations Committee, brought a baseball bat a while ago to a markup of a bill on peacekeeping activities...

Microsoft Bob was bad enough, but now BOB as an IT industry acronym? Enough already with the Bob-ification of the network industry -- and beyond. Network World (10/30/2006)
...commercials. But bastardizing BOB into a lowly IT industry acronym is just going too far. Yet that's exactly what some industry...Newhart Show"). The Arizona Diamondbacks used to call their baseball field BOB, for Bank One Ballpark, and Bob was even pitched...

BASEBALL FANS PROVE TO BE CRACKERJACK HISTORIANS.(MAIN) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (7/18/1993)
...Bureau has been "recording baseball statistics since the days...statistician of major league baseball since the 1930s, when it would enter data from baseball box scores submitted by...STATS INC. The name is an acronym for Sport Team Analysis...

THE SULTAN OF STATS TROUBLED ABOUT HIS IMPACT ON HIS BELOVED SPORT, BILL JAMES NO LONGER WANTS TO BE THE MESSIAH OF BASEBALL NUMBER CRUNCHERS The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (8/6/1989)
...of the Society for American Baseball Research play simulation baseball on computers and stump one...fanatics -- some call them baseball nerds -- started buying The...coined from the society's acronym, SABR. Yet most of these...

WITH THESE, ROCKIES WOULDN'T BE AN ACRONYM-ISM.(Sports)(Column) Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) (4/26/2003)
...friend Jerome Holtzman invented the last baseball statistic, the save. I have always...He is in the writers' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Nearest I ever came to making an impression on baseball was to invent a nickname for Steve Balboni...

3G, Phone Home! WIRELESS: High-speed phone service is coming. Will it work? Will it sell? Will you be able to translate all the acronyms? Newsweek (3/18/2002)
...earphones. Others might go for "event-based services." An example: a subscriber tells his mobile carrier that his favorite baseball team is the San Francisco Giants. Every time a San Francisco player hits a home run, the carrier sends a message to the subscriber...