Bill James
Bill James
George William "Bill" Jamesis an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research, scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. His Baseball Abstract books in the 1980s are the modern...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth5 October 1949
CountryUnited States of America
You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.
Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.
When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.
Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.