The Bill James Handbook 2004

by Bill James

In its first venture into the arena of pure sports publishing, ACTA Publications, together with Baseball Info Solutions, is proud to offer The Bill James Handbook: 2004, an absolute must-have for all sports announcers, sports radio talk show hosts, agents, teams and fantasy baseball players. This exhaustive collection of statistics, designed for the true hardcore fan, contains the complete individual player stats, leader boards, fielding data, team stats and lefty-righty stats for every team and player in all of Major League Baseball. Simply put, it is the best and most complete reference guide available today. With an informative introduction that explains the content in this current edition, as well as plans for future editions, this book is required reading for professionals in the industry and devoted fans alike.

Genres: Baseball

Paperback

Published January 1, 2003

About the author

George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton, Kansas) is a 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 currently 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.

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