Bill James

Bill James (born June 18, 1949 in Mayetta, Kansas) is an important and influential baseball writer, and is its most influential statistician. Since 1977, James has written over two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), attempts to use scientific data collection and interpretation methods to explain why teams win and lose.

Bibliography

• Bill James Baseball Abstract (annual editions published 1977-1988)
• The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (1985)
• The Politics of Glory (1994) (revised as Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?)
• The Bill James Baseball Book (annual editions published 1990-1992)
• The Bill James Player Ratings Book (annual editions published 1993-1996)
• The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2001)
• Win Shares (2002)
• The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (2004, with co-author Rob Neyer)