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Bill James

Bill James made his journalistic mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his bestseller Baseball Abstracts. His unique insight and talent for crunching numbers in unique ways blew open a whole new way of looking at the world. He is credited for setting the stage for others who combine maths with great narrative, such as Malcolm Gladwell. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox and lives in Kansas, with his wife and three children.

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Bill James's Books

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Perfect Victims
Perfect Victims Slaughter, Sensation and Serial Killers: An American Criminal Odyssey By: Bill James
This edition: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publication date: July 7, 2011
The Black Dahlia case. The Manson murders. The Zodiac Killer. The slaughter of JonBenet Ramsay. These killings, among many others in Bill James's astonishing chronicle of the history of American crime, have all created a...
Other Formats: eBook
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Popular Crime
Popular Crime Reflections on the Celebration of Violence By: Bill James
This edition: eBook, 496 pages
Publication date: May 3, 2011
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America. Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill...
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract By: Bill James
This edition: eBook, 1024 pages
Publication date: May 11, 2010
When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the ""holy book of baseball."" Now, baseball's beloved ""Sultan of Stats"" (The...
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27 Men Out
27 Men Out Baseball's Perfect Games By: Michael Coffey
Foreword by: Bill James
This edition: eBook, 336 pages
Publication date: May 11, 2010
There 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 Johnson pitched the last one, in May 2004. In between, some great and...
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The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers
The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches By: Bill James and Rob Neyer
This edition: eBook, 496 pages
Publication date: June 16, 2008
Pitchers, 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 comprehensive source for such information. That's what preeminent baseball...
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Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame
Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame By: Bill James
This edition: eBook, 464 pages
Publication date: April 6, 1995
Arguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year the Hall of Fame elections spark heated controversy. In a book that's sure to thrill--and infuriate--countless fans, Bill James...