* Crossing the line

I love it when baseball slides into areas with which its not normally associated. George Will writing two books on the game, for example, of W. P. Kinsella’s Fantastic Baseball collection of science fiction stories.

Here’s another one: Nate SIlver, who is not only one of the producers of Baseball Prospectus but also created fivethirtyeight.com (and not 538.com, as I learned. And may I just say to the proprietor of that site: Shame on you, sir), one of the more popular websites during the presidential election. (Politics seems just as difficult to predict as sports, as we learn from reading his work prior to Nov. 4 in such outlets as The New York Post.

In any case, Silver is profiled in this item from Timetoeatthedogs.com, a blog dedicated to science, history, and exploration.