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 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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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...
Examiner.com, April 2, 2013
...much more important. Lewis, knowing almost nothing about baseball, offers a fresh perspective on the game. "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract" by Bill James. A must-have for any baseball fan, James's "Abstract" offers a dizzying array of...
Sacramento Bee, March 31, 2013
...Reader in Davis will host several authors during April: Friday: Mark Corwin for "Words in World Literature" Saturday: Bill James for "Parnucklian for Chocolate" April 19: Heather Wood Rudolph and Jennifer Armstrong for "Sexy Feminism" April 23:...
Wicked Local Wareham, March 30, 2013
...and first look for his or her favorite titles. Jim Bouton’s Ball Four and multiple titles by Bill James are there. Notably missing, however, is Roger Kahn’s classic Boys of Summer about the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950s. Yet each turn of the page...
WCAX TV3, March 29, 2013
...they won a world series until they got some management that cared about statistics and hired this guy Bill James with the baseball abstracts to focus on performance analysis and within few years they ended that drought." Baseball has even inspired him...
Fairmont Sentinel, January 19, 2013
...in the Sherburn City Cemetery, Sherburn. Schmoll died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Mayo Health System, Mankato. William "Bill" James Schmoll was born July 10, 1941, in Mountain Lake, son of Leonard and Gladys (Wolff) Schmoll. Survivors include:...
KHOU, January 18, 2013
...This is somewhere in between. Its the middle class that collects guns. The collection belonged to the late Bill James, the founder of the Arms Room. There are 107 items on the auction block and most date back before 1890. This is a Brown Bess musket,...
ESPN.com, January 18, 2013
...334/.416 with 10 home runs after the All-Star break. A more favorable view on Wright comes from Bill James, who pegs him at .302/.392/.488, with 21 home runs, which would be a near-match for his 2012. Travis d’Arnaud (.257 BA, .305 OBP, .424 Slug...
Jackson County Pilot, January 18, 2013
...Cheryl Schmoll was the soloist at the service. The Osterberg Funeral Service of Jackson handled the arrangements. William “Bill” James Schmoll was born on July 10, 1941 in Mt. Lake, the son of Leonard and Gladys (Wolff) Schmoll. He graduated from...
ESPN.com, January 18, 2013
...exist, what might he be doing? Running an ultra high-end personal security company. The spirit of the 1984 Bill James Baseball Abstract was summoned for this project...
NBC Sports, January 18, 2013
...do, but most people can be forgiven if they don’t know that name. � Mike Gimbel was Bill James before he was Bill James. � At least as far as being a stathead consulting for the Boston Red Sox was concerned. . The short version: Inspired by...
SB Nation, January 18, 2013
...and total wins for the 2013 Pirates. Projections can be based off of actual 2012 statistics, ZiPS or Bill James’ projections. Alternatively users can run simulations using their own plate appearances/innings pitched and wOBA/ERA projections. Finally,...
