William J. Weiss (June 2, 1925, Chicago – August 16, 2011, San Mateo, California),[1] was an American baseball historian and statistician.
[citation needed] He moved to San Francisco the following year and began his work as the statistician of the California and Far West Leagues.
Weiss joined the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) on September 3, 1971, as member No.
In 1998, Weiss and fellow historian Marshall Wright were chosen to select The National Baseball Association's top 100 minor league teams.
[6] The collection includes "... a compilation of thousands of individual questionnaires that were filled out by high school ballplayers of past generations who would go on to play Major League Baseball.