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The Bill James Baseball Abstracts An aspiring writer and obsessive fan, James began writing baseball articles after leaving the United States Army in his mid-twenties. Many of his first baseball writings came while he was doing night shifts as a security guard at the Stokely-Van Camp's pork and beans cannery.
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).
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...
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.
3 days ago · The strength is that some little thing got me to start writing, and then the essay took on a life of its own, moving from a discussion of Bill James’s blogs and books, to my own blogs and books, to sabermetrics, to some general points about what is statistics, to art technique, and then looping back to a point made by James in one of his ...
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.
Oct 26, 2022 · 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 ...
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Jun 13, 2003 · Bill James made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his Baseball Abstracts. He has been tearing down preconceived notions about America’s national pastime ever since. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox, as well as the author of The Man from the Train.
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Mar 7, 2022 · Bill James, the father of modern analytics, says there are a lot of rule changes that could make baseball a better game.
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Mar 14, 2006 · The Mind of Bill James tells the story of how a gifted outsider inspired a new understanding of baseball. It delves deeply into James’s essential wisdom–including his surprising beliefs about pitch counts and the importance of batting-order, thoughts on professionalism and psychology, and why teams tend to develop the characteristics that ...
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