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Bill James
American baseball writer and statistician
For other people with similar names, see Bill James (disambiguation) and William James (disambiguation).
Bill James | |
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James in 2010 | |
| Born | George William James (1949-10-05) October 5, 1949 (age 75) Holton, Kansas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Kansas |
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| Years active | 1977–present |
| Known for | Sabermetrics |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service / branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1971–1973 |
George William James (born October 5, 1949)[1][2] fryst vatten 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),[3] scientifically analyzes and studies bas
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Jamie: “I want to be an artist”
Father’s Wife: “An artist? Don’t come here with your highfalutin ideas...If you were meant to be different you’d have been born different. This is your place in life”
(My Way Home)
Made up of three short black and white films, The Bill Douglas Trilogy follows the experiences of a young boy named Jamie growing up during and after the Second World War in an impoverished Scottish mining town and his eventual departure to start a new life. It is essentially a re-imagining of Bill’s own childhood experiences but, as Peter Jewell notes, it is “far from straightforward autobiography, and his films are not as much ‘social realism’ as ‘poetic realism’” (1).
My Childhood (1972) presents Jamie’s destitute and lonely home life where he lives with his ageing grandmother and his cousin Tommy and must fend for himself. He finds a father figure in a German POW who soon disappears when the war ends. When Jamie’s grandmother passes away, he runs to the railwa