Robert Weintraub. the Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age. New York: Little, Brown, 2013. 460 Pp
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Abstract
Robert Weintraub. The Victory Season: The End of World War II and Birth of Baseball's Golden New York: Little, Brown, 2013. 460 pp. Cloth, $27.99. Steven P. Gietschier One popular way for authors to make a mark as they confront imposing bulk of baseball history is to bite off a small chunk and write a book about a single season. Sometimes authors taking this route focus on an individual team, a player, or a pennant race. Sometimes they try to set a season within a larger context by talking about politics, economy, and popular culture. Often they argue that season under consideration embodies characteristics that set it off from others. Occasionally, authors will claim that their season is greatest, best, first: last, or more prosaically, the season when I became a fan, Thus, to name just a few, we have had Bill Felber writing on 1897; Gait Murphy on 1908; Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg on 1921; Reed Browning on 1924; G.H. Fleming on 1908, 1927, and 1934; Talmage Boston on 1939; Robert Creamer on 1941; Red Barber on 1947; Kerry Keene on 1960; and Tim McCarver on 1998. Some much better than others, to be sure. Freelance writer Robert Weintraub must like this format. The author of The House That Ruth Built (2011), a book that focuses on 1923, has fixed his gaze here on 1946, not only the victory season, but also the birth of baseball's Golden Age. Weintraub has asserted both descriptors more than argued for them, but he has written an entertaining book. This is Greatest Generation coming home from war, after all, and who wouldn't want to read about that? Weintraub's strategy is rather simple. He tells his tale in forty short, readable chapters, arranged chronologically. Each of them is a self-contained essay, quite suitable for publication in a sports magazine if only we still had magazines devoted to this purpose. Often, to encourage reader to turn page, Weintraub uses an old trick: including a hook in last paragraph of one chapter to connect it directly to next. Thus, chapter one, on returning veterans, ends with But two AL teams, Washington and Philadelphia, could never fully clear their service lists. The only two major leaguers to die in combat in World War II represented those clubs, (23) and chapter two covers those two players, Elmer Gedeon and Harry 0' Neill. Over course of forty chapters, Weintraub has room enough to discuss many topics. There are one or more chapters on Ted Williams, Larry MacPhail, Jackie Robinson with Montreal, Jorge Pasquel and Mexican League, Bob Feller, Lucky Lohrke, and others. …
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.136 | 0.115 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".