The Bill James Handbook 2007 Author:Bill James Simply put, The Bill James Handbook 2007 is the best and most complete annual baseball reference guide available today. It includes informative introductions to the different sections and an extensive glossary that includes explanations and even mathematical formulae for the multitude of statistics now used in baseball--many of them develope... more »d by Bill James himself. This book contains a myriad of stats on every hit, pitch and catch in Major League Baseball's 2006 season.