# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-james
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:06:45.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-james"
name: "Bill James"
slug: "bill-james"
description: "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 and statistics. His approach, which he named sabermetrics after 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."
tagline: "American baseball writer and statistician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_James_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.63
  momentum:             8.078581696214664
  historical:           7.771808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_James"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_(%D8%A5%D8%AD%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "بيل جيمس (إحصائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James"
    title: "Bill James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James_(baseball)"
    title: "Bill James (baseball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ビル・ジェームズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%8C_%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "빌 제임스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Білл Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AF%94%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E8%A9%B9%E5%A7%86%E6%96%AF_(%E4%BD%9C%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "比尔·詹姆斯 (作家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2037014"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump