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.

For the first time in his life, Bill James is no longer a baseball outsider. So, to accompany last week’s Book Club about Moneyball , I asked James to talk about Lewis’ book, the future of ...

The secret weapon was Bill James, a Kansas-based baseball outsider whose thinking obliterated 150 years’ worth of orthodoxy about what made players valuable. The details of his methods aren’t ...

Indeed, they started playing Moneyball even before Moneyball the book was even published. English: Baseball sabermetrician and Boston Red Sox executive Bill James, 2010. Photo courtesy of ...

Bill James stands in the atrium at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Oakland, surveying the crush of people who have arrived for the world premiere of Moneyball. He looks pleased and a little ...

From a press release (which means it must be true): A new book, just released by McFarland and Company, promises to create shock waves in the baseball world. The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance ...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . BOSTON — 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.

Jeremy Brown became a “Moneyball” poster boy, the pudgy catcher from the University of Alabama whom the A’s surprisingly selected with the 35th pick of the 2002.

BOSTON (AP) -- 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.