Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

- Bill James

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

- Bill James

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle…

- Bill James

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

- Bill James

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

- Bill James

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the othe…

- Bill James

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

- Bill James

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

- Bill James

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

- Bill James