To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Should Babe Ruth Be Jailed?
Bill James thinks that it is unfair, as well as being a sad commentary on our times, that people in authority should wish to imprison Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens for steroid use. He points out that Babe Ruth broke the rules of his time too, yet is today celebrated as the greatest ever. Read the whole thing here.
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