Bill James is a baseball statistician and analyst of note. Through the 1970s and 1980s, he was the author of the Baseball Abstract. A sort of almanac of analysis. Here is an interesting interview where he says something that is very interesting to me right now:
"Because baseball is inherently meaningless, its history is more clear and less clouded than the history of things that are meaningful."I've long held the theory that the only things you can trust in the Newspaper were the sports scores and stock prices. The way Bill sees it, it's easy for the papers to get those right because they are meaningless.
- Art Neuro