More recently, specialists like him have had to fend off a new threat: sabermetrics. Baseball has always been a game obsessed with numbers. But sabermetrics, a term coined in 1980 by statistician Bill James in honor of the Society for American Baseball Research, strives to use every available technology to study baseball empirically—its players, its strategies, the statistics themselves.

Approach control service (APP) was provided by two RAPCONs, one at Spangdahlem for the Büchel, Hahn, Spangdahlem and Bitburg bases in the Eifel area (Spangdahlem Control) and another at Sembach for the Ramstein, Sembach and Pferdsgfeld bases in the Palatinate area (Sembach Control).

The hackers appeared to have used standard phishing and email attachments, some apparently directed at employees with high-level network access, to obtain unencrypted customer data that could complete a fullz.

We were now very weak-handed; three men, besides Mr. Bedwell who was still an invalid, being ill, considerably reduced our strength