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A decade-by-decade history of baseball
features more than one thousand essays on such topics as the best minor
league teams, the sport's one hundred top players, and uniforms,
providing in the paperback edition an extended essay covering the 2001
and 2002 seasons. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
George William James (born October 5, 1949) 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 The New Bill James
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(SABR),[1] 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.[2] In 2003, James was hired The New
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on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox.[3]
James was born in Holton, Kansas; his mother died in 1954
when he was five. His father was a janitor and a handyman. After four
years at the University of Kansas (KU) residing at Stephenson
Scholarship hall, James joined The New Bill James Historical Baseball
Abstract: The Classic the Army in 1971. He was the last person in
Kansas to be sent to fight in the Vietnam War, although he never saw
action there. Instead, he spent two years stationed in South Korea,
during which time he wrote to KU about taking his final class. He was
told The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: The Classic he
actually had met all his graduation requirements, so he returned to
Lawrence in 1973 with degrees in English and economics. He also finished
an Education degree in 1975, likewise from the University of Kansas.[4]
An aspiring writer and obsessive fan, James began writing
baseball articles after leaving the United The New Bill James Historical
Baseball Abstract: The Classic States Army in his mid-twenties. Many
of his first baseball writings came while he was doing night shifts as a
security guard at the Stokely-Van Camp's pork and beans cannery.
Unlike most writers, his pieces did not recount games in epic terms or
offer insights gleaned from interviews The New Bill James Historical
Baseball Abstract: The Classic with players. A typical James piece
posed a question (e.g., "Which pitchers and catchers allow runners to
steal the
most bases?"), and then presented data and analysis that offered an answer.[5]
Editors considered James's pieces so unusual that few
believed them suitable for their readers. In an effort to The New Bill
James Historical Baseball Abstract: The Classic reach a wider audience,
James began self-publishing an annual book titled The Bill James
Baseball Abstract, beginning in 1977. The first edition, titled 1977
Baseball Abstract: Featuring 18 categories of statistical information
that you just can't find anywhere else, presented 68 pages of in-depth
statistics compiled from James's study of The New Bill James Historical
Baseball Abstract: The Classic box scores from the preceding season and
was offered for sale through a small advertisement in The Sporting
News. Seventy-five people purchased the booklet.[6] The 1978 edition,
subtitled The 2nd annual edition of baseball's most informative and
imaginative review, sold 250 copies.[7] Beginning in 1979, James wrote
an annual The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: The Classic
preview of the baseball season for Esquire, and continued to do so
through 1984.[8]
The first three editions of the Baseball Abstract garnered respect for James's work, including a very
favorable review by Daniel Okrent in Sports Illustrated.[9] New annual
editions added essays on teams and players. By 1982 The New Bill James
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and a media conglomerate agreed to publish and distribute future
editions.
While writers had published books about baseball statistics
before (most notably Earnshaw Cook's Percentage Baseball, in the
1960s), few had ever reached a mass audience. Attempts to imitate
James's work spawned a flood of books The New Bill James Historical
Baseball Abstract: The Classic and articles that continues to this day.
In 1988, James ceased writing the Abstract, citing
workload-related burnout and concern about the volume of statistics on
the market. He has continued to publish hardcover books about baseball
history, which have sold well and received admiring reviews. These
books include The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: The
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(1985, 1988, 2001, the last entitled The New B
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