Bill James is probably best known as the influential American baseball writer, historian, and father of sabermetrics but thereโs another side to him too and thatโs his interest in our cultural obsession with murder and popular crime. Aside from talking about his books Popular Crime and the forthcoming Man From the Train, about an early 20th century serial killer, Bill also talked stats and polling – and dodged a question about Tipperary hurling.
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