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George William James (born 1949) [1] 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...
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).
Oct 24, 2019 · That's because on Thursday Bill James announced his retirement from the team. A longtime writer and analyst, James had worked for the Red Sox for nearly two decades.
Mar 17, 2017 · Thirty years ago today, give or take a month or two, Bill James’s 1987 Baseball Abstract came out, and I’d like to take a moment to appreciate what that book meant to me.
Aug 31, 2023 · It’s almost impossible to imagine the modern game of baseball without the contributions of Bill James. The longtime Lawrence resident and KU grad is a pioneer in the field of Sabermetrics, a word that James coined based on the acronym for the Society of American Baseball Research.
Jul 14, 2003 · Ben McGrath writes about Bill James, a statistician and baseball legend hired by the Red Sox to improve the team’s fortunes using “sabermetrics.”
The term "sabermetrics" was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and is often considered its most prominent advocate and public face.
The Basics. Sabermetrics was first introduced to a wide public in 1982, with the first mass-market publication of the Bill James Baseball Abstract. And for my generation of sabermetricians of a certain age, this was the very first sentence about sabermetrics that we ever read:
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