* Keith Woolner: Creator of VORP, or Value over Replacement Player, is a former writer for sabermetric group / website Baseball Prospectus.

* Joe S. Jackson ( 1871 – 1936 ), American sports writer and founder of the Baseball Writers Association of America

Baseball writer and ESPN contributor Tim Kurkjian believes the Triple Crown has become more difficult to win with the advent of more hitters who choose to specialize in either hitting for batting average or power.

Baseball writer Bill James, in his The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, ranked Charleston as the fourth-best player of all-time.

As Francisco Rodríguez pursued the single-season saves record in 2008, Baseball Prospectus member Joe Sheehan, Sports Illustrated writer Tom Verducci, and The New York Sun writer Tim Marchman wrote that Rodríguez's save total was enhanced by the number of opportunities his team presented, allowing him to amass one particular statistic.

He co-edited several of the Baseball Prospectus annual volumes and is a writer for BaseballProspectus. com.

Also, Cooperstown, New York, named for writer James Fennimore Cooper and home of the Baseball Hall of Fame

* Peter Gammons, Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, baseball writer and commentator

* Bill James-baseball writer and statistician whose Baseball Abstract books greatly influenced Beane

Its founding members included Joe S. Jackson, the association's first president ; syndicated columnist Hugh Fullerton ; and Boston Globe baseball writer Tim Murnane (" Baseball Writers Unite ," 9 ).

Baseball writer Rob Neyer, in his Big Book of Baseball Blunders criticized Wills for " the variety and frequency of mistakes " as manager, calling them " unparalleled.

Leonte Landino, a baseball journalist and researcher for the Society of American Baseball Research ( SABR ) followed the path of longtime baseball writer Juan Vene and led the investigation along with Nick Martinez, a baseball researcher in Nevada about Castro's life and proof of birth outside the United States.

In his 1994 The Rules of Baseball, David Nemec relates the following " often-told Kelly tale " and is the rare writer to say it is either false or embellished.

ESPN. com writer Jim Caple ranked PNC Park as the best stadium in Major League Baseball, with a score of 95 out of 100.

According to Lee Allen, Cincinnati writer and eventual director of the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Worcester club impacted the National League in another way in 1880 ; it was instrumental in having the Cincinnati Reds expelled from the league after the season, due to violations of the league rules against selling beer at the ballpark.

* Rick Hummel, Hall of Fame Baseball writer

He is the brother of Bucky Dornster, who held the same job on the original WKRP and was played twice ( on " Holdup " and " Baseball ") by series head writer Bill Dial, who reprised the role once in a cameo on the revival.

Baseball writer Tim Kurkjian stated on the August 3, 2008, edition of Baseball Tonight: " He's a Hall of Famer.

Baseball writer Dave Cameron writes in his piece " Javier Vazquez ’ s Fastball Is Probably Not Coming Back " that beginning in 2010 Vazquez's fastball dropped from 91 mph to 89 mph and that " given his career workload, I wouldn ’ t bet on Vazquez ’ s fastball ever coming back.

With the announcement of a `` special achievement award '' to William A. ( ( Bill ) Shea, the awards list was completed yesterday for Sunday night's thirty-eighth annual dinner and show of the New York Chapter, Baseball Writers' Association of America, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Hunt started the first high-profile experts league, the League of Alternate Baseball Reality which first included notables as Peter Gammons, Keith Olbermann and Bill James.

* 1960 – Bill Pecota, American Baseball Player

Baseball historian Bill James described Martínez as being exponentially more effective than his pitching peers due to his variety of pitches, pitch speeds, pinpoint control, and numerous modes of deception.

* The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

* Bill Buckner, Major League Baseball player

In 2010, Bill James was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.

In an effort to reach a wider audience, James self-published an annual book titled The Bill James Baseball Abstract beginning in 1977.

He has continued to publish hardcover books about baseball history, which have sold well and received admiring reviews ; these books include three editions of The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ( 1985, 1988, 2001, the last entitled The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.

James's publisher agreed to distribute two annuals of essays and data-the 1987 and 1988 editions of Bill James Presents The Great American Baseball Statbook ( though only the first of these featured writing by James ).

How Bill James Changed Our View of the Game of Baseball was published in February 2007.

* Bill James Baseball Abstract ( annual editions published 1977-1988 )

* The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ( 1985 ; revised edition 1988 )

* The Bill James Baseball Book ( annual editions published 1990-1992 )

* The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers ( 1997 )

* The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ( 2001 )

* How Bill James Changed Our View of Baseball: by Colleagues, Critics, Competitors and Just Plain Fans ( 2007 )

* Bill James Interview at Baseball Digest Daily-Part I

The Village of Cooperstown ( home of James Fenimore Cooper ), located at the south end of Otsego Lake, attracts many tourists to the Baseball Hall of Fame and the New York State Historical Association museums.

James, in his Baseball Book 1990, dismissed Dowd's conclusion that the former Cincinnati Reds manager bet on baseball games, for lack of evidence.

James expanded his defense of Rose in his 2001 book The New Historical Baseball Abstract, with a detailed explanation of why he found the case against Rose flimsy.

Derek Zumsteg of Baseball Prospectus wrote an exhaustive review of the case James made and concluded: " James ' defense of Rose is filled with oversights, errors in judgment, failures in research, and is a great disservice to the many people who have looked to him for a balanced and fair take on this complicated and important issue.