The Baseball Book 1991

by Bill James, Jack Etkin, Mike Kopf

An updated baseball reference analyzes each team, makes projections for the 1992 season, and features unconventional player profiles, incisive biographies of former greats, and accurate accessible statistics. 85,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

391 pages, Paperback

Published March 13, 1991

About the author

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 influential people in the world. He is currently a Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. In 2010, Bill James was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.

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