charles pete conrad, richard gordon, alan bean, the crew of apollo 12 the second manned landing on the face of the moon. their target, the site of surveyor 3. >> ignition sequence start. six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. all engines running. commit, liftoff. >> apollo 12 lifted off in the driving rain. >> pete conrad reports the program is in. tower clear. >> 36 seconds later lightning struck the spacecraft. >> i don't know what happened here. we had everything in the world drop out. >> i'm not sure if you got hit by lightning. >> fuel cell butts, ac bus lights, ac bus overload 1 and 2, main bus a and b out. >> okay. we are all organized again, john. we have had a couple cardiac arrests down here, too, pete. >> i will tell you one thing, it's a first class ride, houston. >> you've got a go orbit. you're looking good. >> in space and on earth they checked out the systems to be sure that the lightning had caused no damage that would endanger the mission. the time for commitment neared. the burn to send apollo 12 to the moon. trans lunar injection, tli. >> apollo 12, houston, the go

charles "pete" conrad, richard gordon, alan bean. the crew of apollo 12, the second manned landing on the face of the moon. their target -- the site of the survey are three. >> ignition sequence start. six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. all engines running, commence lift off! >> a polar 12 lifted off in the driving rain. >> pete comrade reports the program is in. tower clear. >> [inaudible] a role program, and this baby is really going. >> 36 seconds later, lightning struck the spacecraft. >> i don't know what happened here. we had [inaudible] dropped out. hit by lightning. feels those disconnecting. overload one and two [inaudible] . >> okay, we're also eyes to get you. >> we had a couple of cardiac arrests down here too, pete. >> well i'll tell you one thing, it's a first class ride. we've got to go orbit, you are looking good. >> in space and on earth, they checked out the systems to be sure that the lightning had caused no damage that would endanger the mission. the time for commitment neared. the burn two-cent apollo 12 to

he anticipated a couple of things including on-base percentage, the importance of that, which billy bean would later take to the nth degree with the oakland a's, and also the idea of wins above replacement, w.a.r. how available is a player over the course of a season, not just what is he doing in each and every game but how many games is he winning for you or counting for at the end of the season. but with sabermetrics and the work of bill james, who was a pioneer in developing baseball statistics, there are so many categories now that you no longer simply have a batting average next to a player. you now have a slash line in which you feature a number of statistics. one of the things that we see with stratomatic is it's no longer just a board game. people are now playing it on their smartphones. they're able to crunch numbers and get the latest information right away. so here at the library of congress we've got more than 167 million items and only a few of those relating to baseball are on display. so if you're in washington, be sure to come by and see what america's library has for you