The experience reminded me of the winter of 1983, when my friend Matt Welch first introduced me to the "Bill James Baseball Abstract" books, and the two of us spent the better part of several gray ...

Senior Baseball Operations Advisor with the Boston Red Sox and author of many books including The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract and The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers Think Tank is ...

Fortunately, in the meantime Bill did write another book, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (covered in this space when it was published last November). And those of you who have the ...

Like famed baseball historian and analyst Bill James, who is referenced multiple times in the book, Posnanski questions everything, asking, “Is what we thought really true?” Most importantly ...