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What are Bill James' Abstracts about?
An aspiring writer and obsessive fan, Bill James began writing baseball articles after leaving the United States Army in his mid-twenties.
Where did Bill James write the baseball abstracts?
Many of his first baseball writings came while Bill James was doing night shifts as a security guard at the Stokely-Van Camp's pork and beans cannery.
Why was Bill James writing about Baseball?
Bill James Online offers profiles of teams and players full of facts and statistics hoping to one day map what Bill James has termed the lost island of baseball statistics.“

Question: How many did he write?
Self-contained rewrite: How many abstracts did Bill James write?