Notice how Michael Lewis in his book Moneyball uses a semi-colon in the third sentence in the following paragraph. In addition, note his use of colons in the subsequent sentences:

Baseball was theatre. But it could not be artful unless its performances could be properly understood. The meaning of these performances depended on the clarity of the statistics that measured them; bad fielding statistics were like a fog hanging over the stage. That raised an obvious question: why would the people in charge allow professional baseball to be distorted so obviously? The answer was equally obvious: they believed they could judge a player’s performance simply by watching it. In this, James argued, they were deeply mistaken.

Lewis, M. (2004). Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game. W.W. Norton & Company. (p. 68)

Notice how Judith Harris in her book The Nurture Assumption uses semi-colons and a colon in the following text:

But the true father of the nurture assumption was Sigmund Freud. It was Freud who constructed, pretty much out of whole cloth, an elaborate scenario in which all the psychological ills of adults could be traced back to things that happened to them when they were quite young and in which their parents were heavily implicated. According to Freudian theory, two parents of opposite sexes cause untold anguish in the young child, simply by being there. The anguish is unavoidable and universal; even the most conscientious parents cannot prevent it, though they can easily make it worse. All little boys have to go through the Oedipal crisis; all little girls go through the reduced-for-quick-sale female version. The mother (but not the father) is also held responsible for two earlier crises: weaning and toilet training.

Harris, J.R. (2009). The nurture assumption: Why children turn out the way they do. New York: Free Press (p. 4)

Notice how Harris uses a semi-colon to separate the first two sentences in the following paragraph:

Interventions aimed at the parents can improve children’s behavior at home but not at school; school-based interventions can improve behavior at school but not at home. These results— which still hold true, ten years after the publication of the first edition of this book— provide powerful evidence against the nurture assumption. What makes this evidence powerful is the fact that, in a properly done study, children are randomly assigned to intervention or control groups. The method is experimental, not correlational.

Harris, J.R. (2009). The nurture assumption: Why children turn out the way they do. New York: Free Press (pp. 237-238)