The Mind of Bill James

The first book to chronicle the life and ideas of “the serious baseball fan’s high priest” ( New York Times ), the impact of his brilliant and entertaining writings, and how someone who never pitched a ball, held a bat, or managed a team fundamentally changed the way baseball is interpreted, analyzed, and even played. Bill James has been called “baseball’s shrewdest analyst” ( Slate ) and “part of baseball legend” ( The New Yorker ), and his Baseball Abstract has been acclaimed as the “holy book