![]() ![]() At the time, Bill marketed his book as “featuring 18 categories of statistical information that you just can’t get anywhere else.” When Bill James started writing his self-published Baseball Abstracts back in the late 1970s, he had to compile situational statistics himself, from the daily box scores, without a computer. But if you wanted more esoteric statistics, like Joe Morgan’s career performance with the bases loaded, you were out of luck. Some things weren’t too bad - if you wanted to know Bill Terry’s batting average in 1933, there were two encyclopedias, Macmillan and Neft/Cohen, that would tell you. Back in the beginning days of sabermetrics, data was hard to come by.
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