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...legendary baseball stat guru and godfather of the data-driven "Moneyball" movement that has changed how front offices evaluate players, has written a new book, The Bill James Gold Mine 2008. TIME's Sean Gregory caught up with James, now a senior advisor to the world champion Boston Red Sox, from the team's spring training facility in Fort Myers, Fla., to talk about the state of analytics in baseball, the Roger Clemens steroids controversy, and whether a certain New York Yankees star looks like Henry Fonda...
...During his six years working at Fenway, Connolly saw the Red Sox work to shake off the legendary curse. His approach to his city shows that same dogged devotion...
...year might give us a bump we need to become an elite program rather than a top-20 program.” Clark will also be able to relate to his new geographical location thanks to his New Hampshire roots in which he grew up as a Boston Red Sox and Celtics fan, which cannot hurt in his assimilation into the Harvard area. More important than his connections to the Cambridge culture, however, are the challenges that Clark will face in his first year as a head coach. Filling the shoes of a seasoned veteran like Kerr will...
...don’t believe in jinxes.Last September, as I watched Red Sox rookie Clay Bucholz spin a no-hitter against Baltimore, the Orioles fan by my side did her valiant best to halt the course of events. While I attempted to ignore the steadfast “0” in the Baltimore hit column, she took every opportunity to point it out. A short time later, Bucholz’s teammates hoisted him in the air to celebrate the no-hitter, and my friend went home—as always—a shamed Orioles...
...like a rumble between the Jets and Sharks. Or maybe a meeting of rap rivals like Nas and Jay-Z, or LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee, or—well, insert your favorite beef here. A little after midnight that evening, a crowd from the Yankees-Red Sox game belched out of Fenway Park. Whether the game had finished, who had won or lost—I did not know the answers to these questions, and still do not. All that I knew was that I was one of dozens of sweat-drenched college kids skittering...