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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 42 quotes by Bill James George William "Bill" 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,... Read full biography of Bill James → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. 0 Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. 0 It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are... → 0 Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud.... → 0 If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways... → 0 Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive... → 0 Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing. 0 Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice. 0 Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. 0 Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened. 0 I like to feel that I understand little things about sports. 0 When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. 0 Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it... → 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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