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Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section give their thoughts on Bill Plaschke's latest column on the greatness of ...
Bill James, the legendary baseball stat guru and godfather of the data-driven “Moneyball” movement that has changed how front offices evaluate players, has written a new book, The Bill James ...
Stat Man Bill James on Baseball's Home Stretch There's an exciting fight to the finish underway in this year's baseball playoffs -- pitching duels, power hitting and major-league comebacks are the ...
Bill James, the sabermetrics pioneer who authored the widely influential “Baseball Abstract” books in the 1980s, took to X on Tuesday to discuss the state of sports, focusing on the ana… ...
The handwritten note is scrawled and hard to read, but that doesn't matter so much. The name at the top and the signature at the bottom are what count. "Tom," the note begins. "Happy Holidays ...
Bill James made his name as the godfather of sabermetrics, his statistical calculations forming the backbone of the popular ...
Illinois left-wing activist James Hodgkinson, who tried to kill more than two dozen congressional Republicans, volunteers and police at a Virginia baseball field in 2017 before being gunned down ...
He presented each of the 443 students with a handwritten letter and a one-dollar bill upon their graduation. Mutterer noted it took him more than 24 hours to write the individual notes.
On Saturday, Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Paul Skenes took the baseball world by storm for his major league debut, but not everyone was that excited about it, including famed baseball stat man Bill ...
In a rare handwritten letter, Babe Ruth personally thanked Boston Globe baseball reporter James O’Leary — who covered the legendary slugger’s career with the Red Sox, including his famous ...