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.

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.

The Moneyball revolution that transformed baseball just turned 20 years old. ... Bill James published his first abstract in 1977 and ten years later his work was well known across the sport.

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 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, ...

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… ...

“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.