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George William James dit Bill James, né le 9 octobre 1949 à Holton , est un historien américain du baseball. Il utilise massivement les statistiques dans ses études. En 2006, le Time le cite parmi les 100 personnes les plus influentes au monde. Consultant pour les Red Sox de Boston depuis 2002, il est introduit en 2010 au Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. octobre 1949
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Bill James: Citations en anglais

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

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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.”

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1985 Baseball Abstract

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

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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]