The Mind of Bill James - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mind of Bill James write by Scott Gray. This book was released on 2006-03-14. The Mind of Bill James available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book to chronicle the life and ideas of “the serious baseball fan’s high priest” (New York Times), the impact of his brilliant and entertaining writings, and how someone who never pitched a ball, held a bat, or managed a team fundamentally changed the way baseball is interpreted, analyzed, and even played. Bill James has been called “baseball’s shrewdest analyst” (Slate) and “part of baseball legend” (The New Yorker), and his Baseball Abstract has been acclaimed as the “holy book of baseball” (Chicago Tribune). Thirty years ago, James introduced a new approach to evaluating players and strategies, and now his theories have become indispensable tools for agents, statistics analysts, maverick general managers, and anyone who is serious about understanding the game. James began writing about baseball while working at a factory in his native Kansas. In lively, often acerbic prose, he used statistics to challenge entrenched beliefs and uncover surprising truths about the game. His annual Baseball Abstract captured the attention of fans and front offices and went on to become a bestselling staple of the baseball book category. In 2002, the Boston Red Sox hired James as an advisor. Two years later they achieved their long-awaited World Series triumph. The Mind of Bill James tells the story of how a gifted outsider inspired a new understanding of baseball. It delves deeply into James’s essential wisdom–including his surprising beliefs about pitch counts and the importance of batting-order, thoughts on professionalism and psychology, and why teams tend to develop the characteristics that are least favored by their home parks. It also brings together his best writing, much of it long out of print, as well as insights from new interviews. Written with James’ full cooperation, it is at once an eye-opening portrait of baseball’s virtuoso analyst and a treasury of his idiosyncratic genius.
The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers
The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers write by Bill James. This book was released on 2014-04-01. The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The man Newsweek once called “the guru of baseball” offers profiles of top managers, sidebars, statistics, and snapshots of each decade. Widely considered to be one of the greatest minds in the history of the game, Bill James has changed the way we think about the sport of baseball. In this chronicle of field generals, strategists, and occasional cannon fodder, James writes with piercing insight about the men who hold what may be the most important spot in the dugout. For nearly forty years, James has led the vanguard of how we measure the game. From sabermetrics to his Baseball Abstracts, James has influenced even the casual fan all the way up to the top brass. Somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, however, is the manager, and Bill James has penned a guide on some of the most innovative and renowned men to ever hold that position. Some of the game’s greatest managers have been Hall of Fame players who put down a bat and picked up a lineup card: Frank Robinson, Mel Ott, Joe Cronin, Tris Speaker, and Rogers Hornsby. Others have achieved greatness from their ability to assemble legendary teams: Billy Martin, Tommy Lasorda, Connie Mack, Joseph McCarthy, Dick Williams, and Leo Durocher. Here, Bill James explores the history of the manager, and its evolution from 1870–1990, in a decade-by-decade chronicle, examining the successes, the failures, and what baseball fans can learn from both. The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers is a thought-provoking, entertaining, and seminal guide to a vital part of the national pastime, written by one of its most groundbreaking iconoclasts. “A delightful collection that will satisfy baseball fans of all ages.” —Library Journal
This Time Let's Not Eat the Bones
This Time Let's Not Eat the Bones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Time Let's Not Eat the Bones write by Bill James. This book was released on 1989. This Time Let's Not Eat the Bones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of the best writing--minus the numbers and complicated formulas--that Bill James has written in the years that his Baseball Abstract established itself as a baseball and literary legend, as well as an annual bestseller.
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract write by Bill James. This book was released on 2010-05-11. The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called “Win Shares,” a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.
Popular Crime
Popular Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Crime write by Bill James. This book was released on 2012-05-08. Popular Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: 2011. With new addendum.
