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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.
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.
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.
Dec 4, 2021 · Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, Bill James grew up in a small town in Kansas that wasn’t particularly geographically close to any major league baseball stadium. 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 ...
Mar 31, 2017 · Bill James, the Godfather of stats, has long since been deserving of a plaque, having helped pioneer sabermetrics and change baseball forever.
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.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bill James. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com.
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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