with rates for the Wessex Health Region of the UK. The total number of hip fracture expected in 2010 was calculated by applying the age-specific rates of 1995 to the projected population for 2010. In 1995, a total of 1138 men and 2782 women in Hong Kong fractured their hip. The age-specific rates had remained static from 1985 to 1995, after substantial rise from 1966 to 1985. In 1995, the rates of hip fracture rates were 11/1000 in women and 5/1000 in men who were 70 years and older. These rates were almost identical to those observed in the Wessex Health Region of the UK. The age-specific incidence rates of hip fracture had not risen in Hong Kong in the last decade. The incidence of hip fracture inof the modern game, with its statistical obsessions, with its quantification of all things. For him, as it is for his computer, baseball is just a numbers game.

In the winter of 2006, Boras prepared to shop Zito, then the left-handed ace for the Oakland A’s. Zito had recently left his longtime agent, Arn Tellem, to move across to Boras; it was a reversal of the move Zito had made in 2001, when he had chosen Arn — and Art — over Commerce. But now it was time for business, and Zito, uncharacteristically, had chosen to slip back inside the battleship.

After Boras had completed his statistical analysis of Zito’s career — including projections for how the rest of his time in baseball would play out, ending eventually, inevitably, with