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Bill James

Bill James
Bill James, American historian and author

George William James is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he named sabermetrics after 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.

5 October 1949

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Born on the same birth day (5 October): Florian Mayer • John Alexander (footballer, born 1955) • Korina Sanchez • Larry Fine • Louise Dresser • Mary Fuller • Richard F. Gordon Jr. • Thomas Herbst (footballer) • Thomas Roberts (television journalist) • Tim Ream • Tornike Shengelia

Born in the same month (October 1949): André Rieu • Antonio Carpio • Barclay Shaw • Dave Hope • Dave Schultz (ice hockey) • Henry Luke Orombi • Isaac Bonewits • James Williamson (musician) • Jessica Harper • Joe Egan (musician) • Lonnie Johnson (inventor) • Lynn Dickey • Warren Burt • Würzel