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Stat Man Bill James on Baseball's Home Stretch

NPR | By Noah Adams

Published October 19, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

There's an exciting fight to the finish underway in this year's baseball playoffs -- pitching duels, power hitting and major-league comebacks are the norm. NPR's Noah Adams chats with baseball expert Bill James about two thrilling Monday evening games in baseball's pennant races. James is the author of The Bill James 2004 Handbook and several other books about baseball.

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Noah Adams

Noah Adams, long-time co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, brings more than three decades of radio experience to his current job as a contributing correspondent for NPR's National Desk., focusing on the low-wage workforce, farm issues, and the Katrina aftermath. Now based in Ohio, he travels extensively for his reporting assignments, a position he's held since 2003.