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A Moneyball Companion

by Jason Brannon

If you saw Moneyball last weekend and are curious about the mysterious man whose unseen presence seemed to loom over... well, just about everything, here’s the 1981 Sports Illustrated article that introduced the world to the mind of Bill James.

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