Bill James

Bill James is an American baseball writer, historian and statistician, best known for coining sabermetrics and for baseball books that study why teams win and lose. Since 1977 he has written books on baseball history and statistics, including The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, and Time included him in the Time 100 in 2006. Beyond baseball he has written crime books such as Popular Crime and The Man from the Train, along with the Harpur and Iles novel Solid Fool's Gold.