4 Bill is often viewed as the of sabermetrics. Writing and doing baseball analysis as a hobby, his first
publiation was The Bill James Baseball Abstract, published in 1977. In a Guide to Sabermetric Research; Phil
Birnbaum cited Bill James definition of sabermetrics as "the •arch for objective knowledge about baseball." He
noted "Sabermetrics researchers often use analysis to question traditional measures of baseball evaluation