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Bill James's Books
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Popular CrimeFrom the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes an epic tour through American crime.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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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
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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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Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame<p>Arguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year the Hall of Fame elections spark heated...Read More
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Indiewire, January 31, 2012
...s uninteresting material per se, or difficult to follow, in the hands of the correct writer. (Like, say, Bill James, the godfather of statistical baseball analysis who's mentioned frequently in the film.) I love that stuff. But how do you get people who...
Crains Cleveland Business, January 21, 2012
SI.com, January 3, 2012
...a lot greater than just that one story. Baseball Magazine was obviously conceived, written and printed long before Bill James, long before Pete Palmer, long before sabermetrics, long before Branch Rickey hired statistician Allan Roth. And yet, because...
Japan Times, December 24, 2011
...Bill James, a well-known baseball authority, deviates from sport coverage to introduce some of America's most celebrated true crime cases in "Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence."...
DAWN Group, December 11, 2011
...keen on utilising a theoretical formula of sabermetric (statistical analysis of baseball based on objective evidence) logarithms by Bill James. Moneyball, as the theory is called, means structuring a team on bargain basement – and sometimes defected...
Hardball Times, December 8, 2011
...flaws. Nonetheless, in its own way, it is every bit as influential as Ball Four. As big a Bill James fan as I am, nobody, not James, not Billy Beane nor Rob Neyer, did more to spread the ideas of sabermetrics than Michael Lewis. Even more than spreading...
Chicago Sun-Times, December 5, 2011
...only to his own hiring but to him and Red Sox owner John Henry hiring premier baseball analyst Bill James as an executive adviser. James’ evaluations played a role in the decision to make the Garciaparra trade. In Scott Gray’s book, The Mind of Bill...
All articles at Blogcritics, October 11, 2011
...the movie, played by Jonah Hill) decided to use the overly geeky statistical analysis pioneered by overly geeky Bill James to fill up a ball club that had a very small payroll. Among other things, they used something called On Base Percentage (OBP),...
Nucks Misconduct, October 10, 2011
...Kopitar as an example to show how Corsi numbers can determine a player's value. Like the old Bill James Baseball Abstracts, the essays are included with full analyses of each of the league's 30 teams. Teams are used to express concepts. Anaheim and Tampa...
A plain blog about politics, October 5, 2011
...and actions, from Mike Konzal.9. Mal Reynolds! And a couple of baseball links -- Joe Posnanski on Bill James, and Mike Fast on catchers framing pitches...
TheWrap.com - Entertainment Industry Analysis, Bre, September 30, 2011
...have included documentary-style interviews with some of the real people involved, and an animated version of stats guru Bill James, which would occasionally interrupt the film to lecture the audience. Inheriting the troubled production with the support...
BETH SPOTSWOOD, September 28, 2011
...you're not reading anything.""No. I'm reading a book about horrible crimes.""What book?""Popular Crime by Bill James.""Oh! I love Bill James. I'm a pollster. Statistics are my thing. Bill James is awesome. Tell me about the book."And during this, people...
Michael Covel: Trend Following Manifesto, September 27, 2011
...it is both thorough and entertaining, you still might not have the right idea. The bibliography ranges from Bill James to Seth Godin to Ludwig von Mises. There are citations ranging from the movie The Matrix to the Greek philosopher Epictetus to the...
EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection, September 23, 2011
...obscure stats like ‘wins above replacement,’ the founding of fantasy sports and the evolution of a guy named Bill James from factory worker to baseball deity.” Lewis’s next book, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (W.W. Norton, 10/3/11),...
