Bill James

The analysis of baseball through objective statistical evidence is known as Sabermetrics, after the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Bill James, who actually coined the phrase “Sabermetrics”, is still the best-known popularizer of the field. James began self-publishing his annual Baseball Abstracts in 1977. In 1982, Ballantine Books released the first commercially published edition of the Abstract, which immediately became a bestseller. The annual was published through 1988, and helped to revolutionize the way baseball fans thought about the game. Bill James has gone on to publish numerous books and articles analyzing the game of baseball.

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April 26, 2004
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