Conversation so far:
What are the Bill James Baseball Abstracts about?
James began self-publishing an annual book titled The Bill James Baseball Abstract beginning in 1977.
Where did he write the baseball abstracts?
Many of his first baseball writings came while he was doing night shifts as a security guard at the Stokely-Van Camp's pork and beans cannery.

Question: Why was he writing about baseball?
Self-contained rewrite: Why was Bill James writing about baseball?