Bill James

"I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say."

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Source: Writer Bill James. The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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Bill James

Bill James

Statistician

Bill James is a baseball writer and statistician known for pioneering sabermetrics, fundamentally changing how the game is analyzed and understood.

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