Sometimes Numbers Do Lie

One day, Yankees PR Director Marty Appell included in the media notes all the categories in which Thurmon Munson led AL catchers. He also put that Munson was second among AL catchers in assists. That day, Yankees pitchers struck out seven batters. On every one, Munson dropped the ball, threw it to first for the assist, then gestured toward the press box.

This was taken from a great article about the Fisk/Munson rivalry in the 1970's by Peter Gammons: http://espn.go.com/gammons/s/0723.html

The point is, statistics and numbers can be made to look pretty, but aren't always oh so true. From sales figures to number of calls made, from phone time to closing rate, numbers can be skewed one way or the other to make someone look good, or bad.