"In a crime story, the details become tremendously……" — Bill James
"In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example."
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37 Quotes by Bill James
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- Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
- Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason…
- I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles…
- I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when…
- Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.
- You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
- I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!
- Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
- Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
- Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.
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