Where can I find Bill James'

Question: I don't care if it's first edition, I just want to read all of his "Baseball Abstracts". Even if there's a online site with all of them on there to read that would be fine too.

Answer: It's true, the first three or four years were home-printed on a mimeograph machine. I have heard, but never pursued it, that if you call up Bill's wife in Lawrence, Kansas and ask to buy copies, she will photocopy them (or print them out; something) and mail them off for a small fee. (This is rather old and unverified information; James really should make them available.) The in-print Abstracts (1980 or '81 through 1988) are out of print and still tricky to find, but check eBay now and then, or your local used bookstores, you might luck out. When I read, at the behest of a friend (so convinced I had to read it he bought me a copy), the 1988 Abstract, well, it was an epiphany, a thunderbolt. I started loving baseball even more, because I began to understand it better.

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