Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Bill James
Born: October 5, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (1985)
- Win Shares (2002)
- Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? (1995)