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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James avg rating 4.57 — 224 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame by Bill James avg rating 4.01 — 86 ratings — published 1995 |
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The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches by Bill James, Rob Neyer avg rating 3.72 — 82 ratings — published 2004 |
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Win Shares by Bill James avg rating 3.60 — 45 ratings — published 2002 |
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Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James avg rating 4.50 — 34 ratings — published 1985 2 editions |
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The Bill James Baseball Abstract, 1986 by Bill James avg rating 4.31 — 29 ratings — published 1982 11 editions |
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The Bill James Gold Mine 2008 by Bill James avg rating 3.48 — 33 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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The BILL JAMES GUIDE TO BASEBALL MANAGERS: From 1870 to Today by Bill James avg rating 4.19 — 27 ratings — published 1997 |
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Bill James Baseball Abstract, 1988 by Bill James avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 1988 |
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The politics of glory : how baseball's Hall of Fame really works by Bill James avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 1994 |
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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."
— Bill James
— Bill James
"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."
— Bill James
— Bill James
"He was called "Pancho" because people at that time didn't have enough sense to be offended by stuff like that."
— Bill James
— Bill James
