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George William James (born October 5, 1949) [1] [2] is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history and statistics.
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Sep 26, 2011 · Bill James was working at a Kansas cannery when he came up with an idea that would transform baseball. The movie Moneyball tells the story of that idea and how the Oakland Athletics ran...
Bill James (1949- ) is the best known baseball analyst in the world, and he has been a prolific author (Baseball Abstracts, Historical Abstract, Handbook and many other works).
May 10, 2017 · Bill James’ invention lead to other people writing books with their takes on sabermetrics, and eventually sabermetrics would be the foundation of how professional baseball organizations would...
Apr 22, 2021 · Starting in the ’80s, fan and aspiring writer Bill James attempted to expand the thought process beyond the numbers on the back of a baseball card and into what he called the “ever-expanding line of numerical analysis.”
Aug 16, 2021 · BILL JAMES, born in 1949 and raised in the small town of Mayetta, Kansas, has had more to do with changing the way people understand baseball than any other single person in history.
Feb 27, 2021 · But the adult Bill James, known to many as “the father of sabermetrics,” became a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose influence on the way the game is both strategized and analyzed is difficult to estimate.
Aug 31, 2023 · James recently sat down with Mark Potts of the Lawrence Times to talk about baseball, his approach to research — and even an unusual short-lived baseball-themed Lawrence restaurant. This interview transcript has been edited and condensed.
Jul 14, 2003 · He is Bill James, a former boiler-room attendant who, almost thirty years ago, set out to debunk the conventional wisdom proffered by television and radio commentators—“baseball’s...
