Bill James was working at a Kansas cannery when he came up with an idea that would transform baseball. The movie Moneyball tells the story of that idea and how the Oakland Athletics ran with it.

There isn’t a Bill James character in “Moneyball,” but his name is used four times in the script, as well as his image. James has been writing about baseball for nearly 35 years.

Sabermetrics patriarch Bill James was just fine with his absence from ''Moneyball,'' though he admits it would have been nice to have been played by Sean Connery.

Bill James made his name as the godfather of sabermetrics, his statistical calculations forming the backbone of the popular "Moneyball" philosophy in baseball. These days, James, 75, is a bit of a ...

Renowned "sabermetrician" Bill James, who laid the groundwork for alternative baseball analysis techniques now used by many MLB front offices, stopped by an Experimental College class on Thursday ...

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… ...

Bill James is learning about the free market today in his 70’s! You are welcome to sign him Bill! ... The book Moneyball took some criticism right from the start, ...

“And Bill James was actively hostile to it. Like, ‘That’s a s—ty title.’” Of course, “Moneyball” came to represent more than a book or Oakland ’s 2002 strategy to score more runs.