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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Bill James in Baseball Digest, 1970s

By Tangotiger, 10:55 PM

"Winning Margins: A New Way to Rate Baseball Excellence” , Baseball Digest, November 1975

“Big League Fielding Statistics Do Make Sense!” , Baseball Digest, March 1976

“Double Trouble: - Pitchers Who Win 20 games and Hit .300” , Baseball Digest, May 1976

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#1 (see all posts) 2009/01/04 (Sun) @ 03:04

Cool!

#2 Lee Panas (see all posts) 2009/01/04 (Sun) @ 16:55

I was a big fan of the Baseball Digest as a kid and I actually vaguely remember those articles. Of course, I had no clue who James was at the time.

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