Bill James
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"George William "Bill" 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 devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. His Baseball Abstract books in the 1980s are the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (now Baseball Think Factory).

In 2006, Time (magazine)/Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He is a Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. In 2010, Bill James was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.

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I've lived in South Florida for 20 years, and up until five years ago, lived about three miles from here; yet I had never been here before. It's a beautiful garden, and I'm glad Chihuly brought me here. I'll be back without it.

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It's easy to make a basket. Getting the material is the hard work.

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We're starting to get pipelines full and (there is) some concern moving product forward. We're pretty much hand-to-mouth right now on space to the West Coast.

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There is a backlog right now but I don't know if it (can be blamed) on anybody else but Mother Nature.

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If we come out of the first period tied, who knows?Maybe it?s a different game. If it?s 2-2 or 3-2 going to the third, who knows?

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We hate the idea of the asterisk or removing records because they're examples of simple-minded thinking that caves in if you think about it for 10 minutes.

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We had a really good start in all of our schools. It went exceptionally well. It was almost like our schools just closed for the weekend.

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All 22 guys on our team, they mean a lot to me. I love every one of them. It?s a shame this had to end because we?re not going to have the same team again.

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