This week on q a author and Senior Advisor for baseball operations for the boston soiks is bill james. Mr. James talks about his book the man from the train the solving of the centuryold erial killer mystery. Host bill james, the man from the train your first sentence i have long been fascinated that knowledge can be created about the past. Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people didnt know these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created an information about them but its so widely that every 4yearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Much of what academics do is create is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a detail and more accurate picture of the past so we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball in the 1960s that the Baseball Players of the 1960s didnt know. Host when did you know you wanted to write this particular ook .
Tells more about that tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every four euro child every for your old child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Ist of what academics do sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball and the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, which i am still working on, about the history of kansas. About thes show murders in villisca, iowa and thought i would put a couple of hours into tracking
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