page_title: Bill James
hierarchical_section_title: Bill James
caption_attribution_description: English: Baseball sabermetrician and Boston Red Sox executive Bill James, 2010. Photo courtesy of dishfunctional, via Flickr.
context_page_description: 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 devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research, scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose.
  In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He was most recently a senior advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox.
context_section_description: George William James (born October 5, 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.
  In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He was most recently a senior advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox.
caption: James in 2010
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