Bill James Handbook Paperback 2019

by Bill James

The first-to-market, most comprehensive, insightful, and groundbreaking annual baseball book on the market. A must-have gift for every true fan, with lifetime statistics and leader boards for every player in the major leagues and projections for how they might do in the future. Redesigned! Hard Hit Balls Analysis Improved! Injury Info Tables New! Strike Zone Runs Saved Exclusive! Annual Fielding Bible Awards Complete! Career Data for every 2018 Major Leaguer Unique! Win Shares, Career Targets, Shifts, Instant Replay Analysis First! Hitter and Pitcher Projections for 2019 This is the paperback version. The exclusive collectors spiral bound edition is available only from ACTA Sports

600 pages, Paperback

Published November 6, 2018

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James

Reviews

[Jeff]

Simply the best. Year after year after year.