260:. Although my name is listed as reviser of the "Baseball and the Law" essay, several false and misleading statements which I did not write or authorize were added to the article before publication. I use the passive voice not to shield the guilty, but because the editors have refused to tell me why these changes were made, and by whom." Despite his previous complaint, the erroneous text was reprinted in the 5th edition (1995), again with Pappas listed as a coauthor but with even more objectionable edits that Pappas had not seen and had not been asked to approve. After Pappas threatened a lawsuit if the essay were once again published with his name on it, the essay was deleted from subsequent editions of
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Doug detested pretension and artifice – he certainly knew that the clothes do not make the man. If he’s somehow observing us, he’s laughing about us wearing suits and ties on this occasion. At the same time, he reveled in the unabashed quirkiness he observed on his frequent drives along
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His abiding enthusiasm for baseball and for the
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Pappas conducted exhaustive research on player salaries, compiling a database from a variety of sources. His analytical work focused on measuring the performance of a team's front office with a metric called
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He was a brilliant researcher, blessed with the capacity to digest and describe great volumes of material. Most SABR research stops there, but Doug continued on, to analyze and make sense of what he observed, and to synthesize his insights into recommendations for resolving the problems he
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Pappas publicly professed extreme unhappiness that the essay to which his name was attached as a co-author had been edited to include opinions with which he vigorously disagreed: "If you want my conclusions, don't read page 606 of the new fourth edition of
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His unexpected death came on a photographic excursion. After his death, his mother donated more than 500 of his books along with 34 of his photograph albums, and approximately 3,700 of his postcards related to transportation to the
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