Bill James's Books
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The Neyer/James Guide to PitchersPitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them -- these days it's the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a...Read More
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27 Men OutThere have been only fifteen perfect games pitched in the modern era of baseball: The great Cy Young fittingly hurled the first one, in 1904, and...Read More -
The New Bill James Historical Baseball AbstractWhen Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the...Read More
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News Weekly, November 19, 2009
...Colin Teese - Babette Francis - Peter Kavanagh MLC - Joseph Poprzeczny - Ian H. McDougall (reviewer) - Bill James (reviewer) - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer) Europe's mass immigration policies questioned REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN EUROPE: Immigration,...
Suite101.com, November 15, 2009
...a few stage directions and notes. Here is an example of a possible chapter summary. Chapter 1 POV: Bill James. Setting downtown NYC. Bill leaves office late at night. Car mounts pavement and tries to run him down. Show Bill confounded at why anyone would...
Hardball Times, November 9, 2009
...ship in mid November! This year's book will feature articles by THT's staff as well as Bill James, Tom Tango and Craig Wright. If you use this link to purchase the Annual, you will be in the first group to receive it and you'll be supporting...
McAlester News-Capital, November 1, 2009
...Country, John Sandford The Christmas List, Richard Paul Evans Breaking the Rules, Barbara Taylor Bradford Full of Money, Bill James Little Bird of Heaven, Joyce Carol Oates Sandworms of Dune, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Prospect Park West, Amy...
Associated Content, October 22, 2009
...to be a part of Boston's baseball history. The third part of the book introduces us to Bill James, a numbers geek responsible for coining the term 'sabermetrics' defined as 'a general term that refers to the use of statistics in the quest for truly...
News Weekly, October 4, 2009
...- Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer) BOOK REVIEW: INSIDE THE STALIN ARCHIVES: Discovering the New Russia, by Jonathan Brent - Bill James (reviewer) The Federal Government announcement that it wants the voluntary separation of Telstra's infrastructure from its...
News Weekly, October 4, 2009
...- Joseph Poprzeczny (reviewer) BOOK REVIEW: INSIDE THE STALIN ARCHIVES: Discovering the New Russia, by Jonathan Brent - Bill James (reviewer) The Australian Federal Police (AFP) inquiry into the deaths of five Australian-based journalists at Balibo in...
Hardball Times, October 2, 2009
...30 articles per book. Most THT writers will be contributing to the Annual, as will several guest writers. Bill James, Craig Wright, Rob Neyer and Tom Tango, some of the biggest names in baseball, have all said they'll contribute. We'll also have a...
Seattle Times, August 25, 2009
...Lance Williams. If you want to understand the steroids generation, you have to read Game of Shadows. 4, Bill James Baseball Abstracts, by Bill James. Pick a year, it doesn't matter. These book, written in the early 1980s, opened up a whole new way of...
Hardball Times, August 14, 2009
...the time had a chance to reach 3,000 hits or 500 home runs. Olkin used a tool Bill James introduced in the called the 'Favorite Toy' to project the likelihood that these milestones would be reached. I thought it might be fun to look back at some of...
Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2009
...book, he also questions the effectiveness of the new generation of baseball statistical experts -- like the legendary Bill James -- who have developed new ways of determining a player's ability. James has gone from writing a private newsletter about...
Mother Jones, July 28, 2009
...the way to make the best-seller list was to sell a lot of books. Nice, but didn't Bill James Submitted by HenryW on July 27, 2009 - 5:37pm. Nice, but didn't Bill James do this thirty years ago? And while we're at it, what are...
News Weekly, July 26, 2009
...THE WORLD TURNS: Just some French youths BOOK REVIEW: D-DAY: The Battle for Normandy, by Antony Beevor - Bill James (reviewer) BOOK REVIEW: THE DARWIN MYTH: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, by Benjamin Wiker - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer) Over the...
San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 2009
...then, Cobb, Ruth, the virulent racist Cap Anson, Rogers Hornsby (a Ku Klux Klan member labeled by historian Bill James as perhaps the biggest 'horse's ass' in baseball history), and other great stars were all inducted into the hall before the...
Hardball Times, June 26, 2009
...Story of the Baseball , by Zev Chafets. The title might make it sound like a warmed-over version of Bill James' seminal (alternately called Whatever Happened to the ?), in which James goes over the Hall's history to understand who got in, who didn't,...
News Weekly, June 13, 2009
...Young - Lucy Sullivan - Dr Brian E. Lloyd, AM - Len Phillips - Warren Reed (reviewer) - Bill James (reviewer) In defence of heroism HEROES: From Alexander the Great to Mae West by Paul Johnson (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson)Hardcover: 297 pages Rec....
Blogcritics.org, May 18, 2009
...Earlier on BC: Part One - Books #15 through #6. #5: The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2003 Edition) James's new abstract is a make-over of his original Historical Baseball Abstract, published in 1986. The biggest difference in the new...
News Weekly, May 3, 2009
...Dr Kevin Donnelly - Peter Westmore - Alan A. Hoysted - Greg Byrne - Len Phillips (reviewer) - Bill James (reviewer) - Peter Westmore (reviewer) Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz in Elegy The film Elegy is based on a Philip Roth story The Dying Animal (2002)...
Arkansas Business, April 22, 2009
...with' the center but that his title was now senior editor. He referred other questions to his lawyer, Bill James of Little Rock. James was out of town and did not immediately return a call requesting comment. Stricklin said that the center's contract...
Miami Herald, April 11, 2009
...of rookies by their manager when they went into training camp back in 1894. Dickson adds, 'According to Bill James (in) his 'Historical Baseball Abstract,' the term received national publicity when Brooklyn held a benefit game for the survivors of the...
News Weekly, April 3, 2009
...- Peter Westmore - Dr John Whitehall - Len Phillips - Marc Sheppard - John Elsegood (reviewer) - Bill James (reviewer) Like, whatever ... THE TRIUMPH OF THE AIRHEADS and the Retreat from Commonsense by Shelley Gare (Sydney: Park Street Press/ Media21)...
Seattle Times, March 24, 2009
...Wall Street set for modestly higher opening 81 AP source: EPA says global warming a public danger 78 Bill James on Morrow, other M's 67 Wash. gov still skeptical of taxes, likes bonds 60 Fed and Treasury chief to get grilled on AIG 48...
Izoom, March 8, 2009
...studious student who has done his homework. His opinions are well-reasoned, and there's even a touch of Bill James in some of his statistical analysis. Turns out that Terry Blount may have been covering NASCAR for only a decade and a half, but before...
Ashtabula Star-Beacon, February 19, 2009
...crunching the numbers and coming to the conclusion that the yardsticks baseball scouts used werent all that accurate. Bill James developed many of the concepts and explained them in the Baseball Abstract, which he published annually until he gave up...
News Weekly, February 9, 2009
...Ken Aldred - Patrick J. Byrne - Jeffry Babb - Hon. Tony Abbott MP - John Ballantyne - Bill James (reviewer) - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) Account of legendary digger 'rings true'HARD JACKA: The Story of a Gallipoli Legend by Michael Lawriwsky. Foreword...
Opelika-Auburn News, January 27, 2009
...s Visiting Author Program, which has taken place for more than 20 years, according to Jeter Primary Principal Bill James. Both Johnson and award-winning author Carmen Agra Deedy will visit several Opelika schools later this week as part of Opelika City...
PublishersWeekly.com, January 11, 2009
...Schweizer Atria/Pocket Books Alibi Joseph Kanon Henry Holt Weaving Shadows Margaret Murphy St. Martin's Minotaur Iles Mystery Bill James W.W. Norton Dance of Death Douglas J. Preston, Lincoln Child Warner Books 44 Scotland Street Alexander McCall-Smith...
Columbia Journalism Review, January 10, 2009
...Fame next month.? (?Somebody asked me did I think Rickey Henderson was a Hall of Famer,? baseball statistician Bill James said back in 2001. ?I told them, ?If you could split him in two, you?d have two Hall of Famers.??) Well, enter the...
News Weekly, December 23, 2008
...Abbott MP - John Ballantyne BOOKS: HARD JACKA: The Story of a Gallipoli Legend, by Michael Lawriwsky - Bill James (reviewer) BOOKS: EKATERINBURG: The Last Days of the Romanovs, by Helen Rappaport - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) The ability to practise...
News Weekly, December 5, 2008
...Colin Mason - Peter Westmore - Dr Lucy G. Sullivan - J.W. Shannon - M. Gordon - Bill James (reviewer) Little will remain of the rule of law in Australia if our law schools are filled with radical activists pushing their political agendas, writes Bill...
News Weekly, December 5, 2008
...Colin Mason - Peter Westmore - Dr Lucy G. Sullivan - J.W. Shannon - M. Gordon - Bill James (reviewer) Vast right-wing 'conspiracy' exposedTHE FAMILY: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism's Shadow Elite by Jeff Sharlet (Brisbane: University of Queensland...
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf, October 23, 2009
...Reds , by Joe Posnanski 3 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , by Michael Lewis 4 The Bill James Handbook 2010 * 5 Essays and Writing Now I Can Die in Peace 1 Sixty Feet Six Inches 2 Moneyball 3 As They See...
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf, October 15, 2009
...by Zack Hample 1 The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball , by Tango et al 2 The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract 3 Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong , by Baseball Prospectus 4 ...
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf, October 9, 2009
...by Zack Hample 1 The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball , by Tango et al 2 The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract 3 Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong , by Baseball Prospectus 4 ...
Bottom9 Baseball: The best baseball blog posts fro, October 8, 2009
...OhioThe centerfielder for this DMB World Series Cleveland Spiders, McAleer was a fast, graceful centerfielder during the 1890s. Bill James considers him the best outfielder of the 1890s. Offensively he hit just .253 over 10 full seasons, a very low [...]...
Rany on the Royals, August 31, 2009
...has both. (It's worth noting that according to ESPN's Cy Young Predictor, based on a formula Bill James presented in The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers , Greinke has edged back into first place .) And finally, we have to acknowledge that award voters are,...
The Pleasures of Underachievement, August 30, 2009
...and also disprove some of the sports' more received wisdom. But the book's more immediate influences are Bill James, the Kansan factory manager whose annual Baseball Abstracts revolutionised thinking about the game, and Michael Lewis, who adapted James'...
Bleed Scarlet, August 5, 2009
...combination of groundbreaking insights, and biting prose 4 , I can get the appeal of a sharp, singular voice like Bill James, even though his heyday was way before my time. His earlier work still holds up well today . Take Baseball Prospectus for...
Bleacher Report - Front Page, June 15, 2009
..."similarity score". Rather than being one of these people, I would prefer to take residence inside of Bill James' colon. Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoyed Moneyball. In fact, while watching Jay Bruce, it has been on my mind a lot lately. I am...
BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs, May 22, 2009
...Idol Entry Brian Cartwright's Initial Entry by Brian Cartwright Bio: I've been a stats-geek since before Bill James started self-publishing Abstracts, and have been a Prospectus subscriber for about ten years now. Recently, ... May 17, 2009 Prospectus...
Euro Crime, May 13, 2009
...R. Hall John Harvey Kaye C. Hill Suzette A. Hill Matt Hilton Roger Hudson Declan Hughes Maxim Jakubowski Bill James Paul Johnston Alison Joseph Reg Keeland (translator eg Stieg Larsson ) Janet Laurence Adrian Magson Edward Marston Andrew Martin Priscilla...
Sports, Ink, May 12, 2009
...that well, but it's an easy read that gives a relatively casual look at both subjects. The Bill James Gold Mine 2009 --The essays by famous baseball analyst Bill James are worth reading, as usual, but the rest of the book has "nuggets" of information...
Bluebird Banter, April 5, 2009
...number of the General Managers and Managers in the league now are people that grew up on reading Bill James . But some of them.... Do you think Cito has read anything by Bill James or Rob Neyer or any of the people finding new ways of looking at...
Mets Geek, March 27, 2009
...on more than one for a range of perspectives, statistically. The thing I love most about The New Bill James Historical Abstract isn’t the way Bill uses the Win Share system to rank players; it’s how he uses the ratings as an excuse to tell stories...
710 ESPN's "SMOG" - Steve Mason's Blog, March 24, 2009
...analysis. Keep in mind that this was before the publishing of MONEYBALL by Michael Lewis. So, they hired Bill James and kept Dan Duquette. But Theo Epstein started putting his Ivy League degree to use. While Billy Beane was chasing players with a great...
U.S.S. Mariner, March 23, 2009
...Baker’s current post: Bill James on Morrow, M’s Stone’s current post: Bill James on the M’s LaRue’s current post: Bill James offers his thoughts on the Mariners They’re all...
Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for Internation, March 20, 2009
...World Series that I quoted yesterday reminded me of another of my favorite crime-fiction passages, the opening of Bill James' The Detective Is Dead . I make no apologies for quoting that passage yet again. Its humor and its sheer, unexpected beauty make...
Basketball-Reference.com Blog, March 18, 2009
...Michael Lewis wrote a little book called Moneyball way back in 2003. The concepts were old hat to Bill James devotees, but never before had they been presented in such a mainstream way, with such a compelling test case as Billy Beane’s Oakland A’s....
Baseball Musings, February 26, 2009
...I just received an email that The Bill James Gold Mine 2009 is ready to order. That of course reminds me you may want to stock up on your baseball books, like The Hardball Times Season Preview 2009...
Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for Internation, February 9, 2009
...appeal to crime fiction fans. It even contains a scene of police-on-police violence that may remind readers of Bill James . Earlier I'd seen and liked the Batman movie Dark Knight , whose attractions included, in addition to Heath Ledger's celebrated...
Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog, February 8, 2009
...Seligman, RIP Dan Seligman, my role model as a quantitative journalist, has died at 84. Dan was the Bill James of public policy journalism. I can recall sitting up all night in 1981, when I was supposed to be writing an MBA term paper at UCLA, with a...
emely1063618, January 27, 2009
...Sailboat Electrics Simplified at Amazon.com Learn about Similar Products On Amazon.com Eyewitness Renaissance Simply Perfect The Bill James Handbook 2008 Blood Fever The Misadventures of Jeremy Sports Illustrated Kids Year In Sports 2008 You need to know...
bryson, January 24, 2009
...McKamey’s Minor League Baseball Analyst is the first book to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting. A long-term Bill James disciple and graduate of Major League Baseball’s scout school, Deric provides his unique brand of analysis for over 1,000...
alisha, January 15, 2009
...McKamey’s Minor League Baseball Analyst is the first book to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting. A long-term Bill James disciple and graduate of Major League Baseball’s scout school, Deric provides his unique brand of analysis for over 1,000...
ashanti, January 12, 2009
...a Woman Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 1 The Long Way Home You Are Special How Bill James Changed Our View of the Game of Baseball The Failsafe Cookbook You need to know that The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers is an...
The Millions, January 10, 2009
...Read this,' I'd say, 'and it will give you a pretty good idea.'" For sports fans: Bill James on why statisticians should boycott the BCS . That perilous question: why blog? Vice did a fiction issue . David Brooks discusses some of the best long-form...
Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for Internation, January 1, 2009
...Here's that Bill James excerpt that I promised the other day . The scene: Assistant Chief Constable Esther Davidson is contemplating the possibility that a gangster charged with the torture/murder of a police informant...
juneausailingclub.org, December 30, 2008
...1966), author, Hutchinson, Kansas. Langston Hughes, (1902-1967), author and poet, Lawrence, Kansas. William Inge, (1913-1973), playwright, Independence, Kansas. Bill James, (born 1949), author, Mayetta, Kansas. Scott Phillips, (born 1961), author,...
Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for Internation, December 29, 2008
...one of each type from Adrian McKinty's Fifty Grand , and then later this week, a gem from Bill James. First, McKinty: "Listen to me, buddy, I can make you rich. I can get you money. A lot of money. Millions. Do you understand? Millions of dollars....
armani, December 20, 2008
...Click The Image To See The Low Prices For The Bill James Handbook 2008! Click Here To Purchase The Bill James Handbook 2008 at Amazon.com Simply put, The Bill James Handbook 2008 is the best and most complete annual baseball...
julianne, December 15, 2008
...Illustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Architecture A landmark reference with more than 1 000 illustrations elevations and palns How Bill James Changed Our View of the Game of Baseball You need to know that Cochrane The Real Master and Commander is an...
Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for Internation, November 28, 2008
...s 2004 interview , in which he tells Ray Banks that: "I abandoned British crime years ago except for Bill James , who I love. His 1988 novel Protection just won the European Crime Novel of 2004 in France. His Iles and Harpur series is magnificent." Oh,...
Omnivoracious, November 27, 2008
...make a good case that he's been as influential a writer as even Capote. Not only did Bill James transform the way fans and, later, professionals, think about baseball (as well-chronicled in Michael Lewis's Moneyball )--whatever you might think that's...
BaseballGB, November 26, 2008
...of the book (questioning the accuracy of oft-repeated stories) with the fact that it contains a foreword by Bill James, seen by many as the leader of statistical analysis in the sport, some baseball fans will immediately recoil in disgust. ‘Oh...
911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related, November 25, 2008
...Recent Headlines Et Tu Lindorff? Japan: Fujita Continues to Challenge 9/11 STJ911 Misrepresented in Draft Bill James Gourley Published in "The Journal of Engineering Mechanics" Peter Dale Scott - Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection Alternet:...
911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related, November 25, 2008
...Recent Headlines Et Tu Lindorff? Japan: Fujita Continues to Challenge 9/11 STJ911 Misrepresented in Draft Bill James Gourley Published in "The Journal of Engineering Mechanics" Peter Dale Scott - Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection Alternet:...
Joe Posnanski, November 23, 2008
...career win shares wrong. I wrote 270. THT has 274. – Only this isn’t wrong. I used Bill James as my career Win Share source since he invented Win Shares. And he has Mussina with 270 career Win Shares. 2. I got Billy Butler’s age wrong. I...
