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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.
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 is a pioneer of sabermetrics, a statistical analysis of baseball performance and strategy. He has written many books and articles, and served as a senior advisor for the Boston Red Sox.
Bill James, whose quantitative analysis of baseball revolutionized the sport, talks with baseball writer Rob Neyer about his life, his career, and the nation...
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.
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...
Oct 26, 2022 · 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.
