Young people who chose books and learning to help them make sense of the overpowering world become so enamored of the books that they lose interest in that world that those books were supposed to help them understand until, if they are historians, they are writing papers on where Napoleon went to the bathroom, and if they are psychologists, they are running rats through multicolored mazes…
—Bill James, in Let’s Not Eat the Bones—Bill James Without the Numbers, 1989, p. 221.