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George William James is 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.

In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He was most recently a senior advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. October 1949
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Famous Bill James Quotes

“There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.”

Bill James

The Mind of Bill James, 2006, p. 191

“I didn't care about the statistics in anything else. I didn't, and don't pay any attention to the statistics of the stock market, the weather, the crime rate, the gross national product, the circulation of magazines, the ebb and flow of literacy among football fans and how many people are going to starve to death before the year 2050 if I don't start adopting them for $3.69 a month; just baseball. Now why is that? It is because baseball statistics, unlike the statistics in any other area, have acquired the powers of language.”

Bill James

1985 Baseball Abstract

“Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.”

Bill James

Quoted in [Gray, Scott, The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball, 2006, Doubleday, New York, ISBN 0-385-51464-6, 191]

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