How I love 60 minutes.  I don’t love baseball, but I love anything that has skepticism applied to its long unchallenged traditions.

Morley Safer profiles at former night watchmen who spent many of those night crunching numbers of debunking many of baseball’s myths…

“[Bill James] says for decades managers used outdated formulas or intuition in making decisions. So night after night, he crunched numbers until he came up with new statistics based on facts that would either support or debunk tradition.”