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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.

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