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When did Bill James publish his first Baseball Abstract?

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Green retro manual baseball scoreboard beyond an empty, neatly mowed baseball field with brown infield dirt and striped grass outfield. — Sabermetrics A scoreboard provides some – but not necessarily the most useful – data on player and team performances in baseball.

Bill James self-published his first Baseball Abstract in 1977.1