Bill James
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George William James is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history
James in 2010
Billy Beane
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William Lamar Beane III is an American former professional baseball player and current front office executive. He is currently senior advisor to owner John Fisher and minority owner of the Athletics o
Bill James
…to the language of baseball, like the idea of the "defensive spectrum", border on being entirely non-statistical. Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane began applying sabermetric principles to running his low-budget team in the early 2000s, to notable effect, as chronicled in Michael Lewis' book…
Beane in 2012
Beane at the Oakland Coliseum in 1989, during his time with the A's
Beane (left) at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival