Bill James's Books
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Perfect VictimsA sweeping history of crime and the way we report it from one of America's most admired reporters.Read More -
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
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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 Randy...Read More
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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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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 FameArguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year the Hall of Fame elections spark heated controversy....Read More
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ESPN.com, June 7, 2013
...link here), so if you’re curious, check that out. Here goes. The New Historical Baseball Abstract, by Bill James. This is the one book you need to have. This book has been next to my toilet for the past 12 years. Apart from Moneyball, it’s...
ESPN.com, June 3, 2013
...the greatest compliment I could ever give someone is that they changed the way I think about things. Bill James changed the way I think about things, as did Dan Dennett, and many untold others. Many of our regular readers and commenters here have changed...
University of Nottingham Impact, April 25, 2013
...Doganis (Producer), The Imposter David Morris (Director), Jacqui Morris (Director/Producer), McCullin Dexter Fletcher (Director/Writer), Danny King (Writer) Wild Bill James Bobin (Director), The Muppets Tina Gharavi (Director/Writer), I Am Nasrine ...
University of Nottingham Impact, April 23, 2013
...Doganis (Producer), The Imposter David Morris (Director), Jacqui Morris (Director/Producer), McCullin Dexter Fletcher (Director/Writer), Danny King (Writer) Wild Bill James Bobin (Director), The Muppets Tina Gharavi (Director/Writer), I Am...
Yahoo! News, April 17, 2013
...Bob Murphy, Dead Ball era great Michael ?King? Kelly, baseball's first superstar, Yankees GM Brian Cashman, and Bill James, famed statistician and an advisor for the Boston Red Sox. 2011 inductees: Nolan Ryan, baseball?s all-time strikeout king, Big Ed...
Recordnet.com, April 13, 2013
...34, lives. His pen name is B.H. because William James, an American philosopher, already was taken, and Bill James is a best-selling baseball analyst. Sacramento's Jakob Vuksinich acts out the naive and minimally communicative Josiah; Amber Massey of...
SB Nation, April 12, 2013
...years old, in the space of just a few days I was utterly captivated by two books: The Bill James Baseball Abstract and Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was those two books, along with the Kansas City Royals, that turned me into an...
Newsday, June 1, 2013
...give a competitive edge." Though Moneyball is an oversimplification of the work done by statisticians such as Bill James and the sabermetric crowd, it did open the door to people whose playing careers stopped well short of the professional level -- or...
Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 31, 2013
...in basketball. Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, most notably, is an MIT MBA who grew up reading Bill James' "Baseball Abstracts" before becoming one of the first NBA executives to value analytics. Alagappan is proud to point out that Morey's...
San Jose Mercury News, May 31, 2013
...in basketball. Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, most notably, is an MIT MBA who grew up reading Bill James' "Baseball Abstracts" before becoming one of the first NBA executives to value analytics. Alagappan is proud to point out that Morey's...
Inside Bay Area, May 31, 2013
...in basketball. Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, most notably, is an MIT MBA who grew up reading Bill James' "Baseball Abstracts" before becoming one of the first NBA executives to value analytics. Alagappan is proud to point out that Morey's...
Daily Breeze, May 31, 2013
...in basketball. Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, most notably, is an MIT MBA who grew up reading Bill James' "Baseball Abstracts" before becoming one of the first NBA executives to value analytics. Alagappan is proud to point out that Morey's...
Marin Independent Journal, May 31, 2013
...in basketball. Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, most notably, is an MIT MBA who grew up reading Bill James' "Baseball Abstracts" before becoming one of the first NBA executives to value analytics. Alagappan is proud to point out that Morey's...
Oakland Tribune, May 31, 2013
...in basketball. Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, most notably, is an MIT MBA who grew up reading Bill James' "Baseball Abstracts" before becoming one of the first NBA executives to value analytics. Alagappan is proud to point out that Morey's...
