Cobb back is not T206 and here's why...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Is it time to have another Jack Dunn horizontal thread yet?

[ethicsprof]

I like very much when Leon says earlier in this thread: 'there are many issues
where burdick was clearly wrong. .....I feel that if we were going to change the ACC, it would be done on a consensus basis.'
Typically, in my world, this means doing the careful research, presenting the research to colleagues informally(similar to the best of the Net 54 discussions),presenting the research formally at conferences, publishing the best of the research in refereed journals,monographs, and books. Consensus is sometimes found after long years of openly discussing these conference papers, journal articles, and books.
As I see it, Burdick is THE book in the area of baseball classification.
It stands alone because it is alone.
Perhaps it is time to begin moving from the seminar stage where graduate students and undergraduate students argue with each other and their professors--and the informal presentation stage where professors argue with other professors. Using the search tool is helpful as are polls and surveys.
Perhaps it is also time to check out more thoroughly the list of publications
by our board members itemized on our website.
And then we offer our own informed and researched responses to each other,
without disparagement, without epithets, without ad hominem.
Just a thought. I know full well we're a blog and not a university.
But we have given birth to hundreds of publications, collaborations which
have produced great pieces in Old Cardboard, Collector Magazine, Reader's
monograph, The Old Judge tome, and others which would make Burdick proud
methinks.
best,
barry

[ullmandds]

rehashing the same topic every 3 weeks will not likely reveal any earth shattering new evidence here...it will only irritate most people!

Debating whether t213-1's should be in t206 is much more compelling than cobb/cobb...but I control myself!