{"id":15733,"date":"2022-09-27T15:27:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=15733"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:05:59","slug":"on-demand-arts-and-sciences-of-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2022\/09\/27\/on-demand-arts-and-sciences-of-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"The arts and sciences of baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BbOzSoUeKCs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Recorded: April 4, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill James<\/strong> is an acclaimed American baseball writer, historian, and statistician who pioneered Sabermetrics, the empirical analysis of baseball using statistics. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including The Bill James Handbook, published annually. He is also Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. He presented \u201cThe Arts &#038; Sciences of Baseball\u201d to the BU Community to share his life as a non-academic who became a baseball scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how a non-academic became a renowned baseball scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20583,"featured_media":15735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,390],"tags":[284],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2022\/09\/arts-and-sciences-of-baseball-800x600.png","agg_excerpt":"Learn how a non-academic became a renowned baseball scholar.","agg_title":"The arts and sciences of baseball","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15742,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15733\/revisions\/15742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}