The Noisy Game of Baseball

If a baseball player hits well early in the season, will he do just as well later on?

Halfway through the 2005 baseball season, John Olerud was having a great year with the Boston Red Sox. His batting average was .405, far better than that of most players. If someone had offered to wager with you on what his batting average would be for the rest of the season, what would you have bet?

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It might seem like .405