George William James Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
George William "Bill" James (born 5 October 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 American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. His Baseball Abstract books in the 1980s are the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (now Baseball Think Factory).In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He is a Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. In 2010, Bill James was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.
Full Name
George William James
Net Worth
$700,000
Date Of Birth
October 5, 1949
Place Of Birth
Mayetta, Kansas, USA
Height
6' 4" (1.93 m)
Occupation
Historian, statistician
Profession
Baseball writer and statistician
Nicknames
Bill James, James, Bill
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
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Baseball is a wonderful form of education. The ways we have of learning about baseball are better than our ways of learning about anything else....The game is open to you if you're a poet or an accountant, if you're a left-brain or a right-brain person. Nothing else in this country does so good a job of teaching the public about itself.
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Fact
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Hired by the Boston Red Sox as a senior baseball advisor. [November 2002]
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Boston, MA: Currently serving as Senior Adviser on Baseball Operations to the Boston Red Sox. [January 2012]
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For his first Baseball Abstract in 1977, he was given a Kansas City Royals' press book by baseball fan David L. Lander ("Squiggy" of "Laverne & Shirley" (1976) fame).
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Some of his most famous books are The Bill James Abstract, The Bill James Historical Abstract and Win Shares.
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The most famous analyst (or sabermetrician) in baseball history.
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Baseball writer, historian and commentator.
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His children are Rachel (born 1986), Isaac (born 1988) and Reuben (born 1993).
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Moneyball
2011
special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Colbert Report
2011
TV Series
Himself - Author, 'Popular Crime'
Clubhouse Confidential
2011
TV Series
Himself - Panelist
The Simpsons
2010
TV Series
Himself
60 Minutes
2008
TV Series documentary
Himself - Statistician (segment "Stat Man")
ESPN 25: Who's #1?
2004-2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
Baseball's Secret Formula
2006
TV Movie
Himself
Pete Rose on Trial
2003
TV Movie documentary
Witness for the defense
ESPN SportsCentury
1999-2000
TV Series documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Known for movies
Pete Rose on Trial (2003) as Witness for the defense
Baseball's Secret Formula (2006) as Himself
Clubhouse Confidential (2011) as Himself - Panelist