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George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton, Kansas) is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. His Baseball Abstract books in the 1980s are the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (now Baseball Think Factory).

In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influ...more

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Books by Bill James

Average rating: 4.12 · 2,194 ratings · 218 reviews · 51 distinct works

	The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract 4.45 avg rating — 1,002 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence 3.61 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame 4.05 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches by Bill James, Rob Neyer 3.72 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Win Shares by Bill James, Stats Inc., Jim Henzler 3.71 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Bill James Baseball Abstract, 1986 4.32 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers: From 1870 to Today 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Bill James Gold Mine 2008 3.40 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Bill James Handbook 3.73 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	My rating:
	This Time Let's Not Eat the Bones: Bill James Without the Numbers 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.”
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“If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.”
― Bill James

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“I always admire people who have the courage to confront the conventional wisdom - I mean, people within the system. Those of us on the outside, it's easy for us to say whatever we think, because there are no consequences to it. It's much harder to say, "I think the conventional wisdom is full of beans, and I'm not going to go along with it," when you're inside the system and exposed to the possibility of actual failure. I think the people who do this drive the world to get better, whereas the people who snipe at anybody who dares suggest that the conventional wisdom is malarkey are, in my view, gutless conspirators in the mediocrity of the universe.”
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