|
Mr. James, the statistical oracle.
—The Wall Street Journal
Bill James is quite certainly the most influential baseball writer
of the twentieth century; it's not even close.
—Alan Schwarz, The New York Times
Baseball's most celebrated scholar.
—USA Today
Available March 2, 2010!
For more than 30 years, Bill James has been at the
forefront of innovation in baseball statistics. Never
one to rest on assumptions, his questions about baseball
challenge the "conventional" wisdom. Sometimes
his questions have pointed to answers, sometimes not.
And sometimes they lead to revolutionary approaches
to baseball analysis that are being applied at the major
league level today.
In The Bill James Gold Mine 2010, James is still asking
questions. And with these and other new essays, he tills
the unturned soil of baseball’s establishment:
- On the Move
- The Attribution Problem
- The Doubles Record
- Notes on the 1974 World Series
- Four Chicagos for Cooperstown
- Percentage of Full Careers
- Right Place for an RBI Man?
- What I Would Do with the All-Star Game
- Comparing Starting Pitchers Across History
- 2009-2010 Young Talent Inventory
Not only have his questions made him famous, but
his innovative and sometimes quirky statistics have
created legions of Bill James fans. The Bill James Gold
Mine 2010 also contains the innovative profiles and
nuggets of statistical information fans have come to
expect, including:
- Pitch Type Analysis
- Baserunning Analysis
- Pitcher’s Record of Opposing Batters
- Performance by Starting Pitcher
- Productivity by Batting Order Position
- Fielding Bible Plus/Minus Data
 Bill James made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his mind-blowing Baseball Abstracts. He has been tearing down preconceived notions about America's national pastime ever since. He is currently the Senior Baseball Operations Advisor for the Boston Red Sox. |
| 
