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If you’re reading these words, chances are—like me—you’re a baseball lover.   You may be a proponent of the designated hitter rule (I’m not), you may enjoy high-scoring four-hour marathons (I prefer low-scoring pitching duels that are played in under two-and-a-half hours), and you may think Ruth the greatest player of all time (I could give you a half-dozen reasons why Cobb is).   But I’d wager that what draws us both to this ...

IÆve always loved the game of baseball. WhatÆs not to love? A simple game-hit a round ball squarely with a round bat-with simple rules: reach base, move the runner along, and score more runs than your opponent. My dad took me to my first ballgame, a Tigers/Angels night game at old Tiger Stadium, a game which the home team won. I was but seven years old. The Corktown ...

Game five of last nightÆs ALCS game between the Yankees and Angels was fascinating not just because Los Angeles staved off elimination, doing it in comeback fashion late. á During the middle innings, when it looked as if the Yanks were in control of the game, Fox Sports announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver talked about use of video review in major league baseball. Each stated, and I agree, that the umpires ...

In early 2008, I completed Backstop: A Baseball Love Story In Nine Innings. Backstop is my fourth novel and now second to be published. This year, Second Wind Publishing, an independent press entering their second year, offered to add it to their growing list of titles. You know Backstop. He plays the catcherÆs position for any team in any city in America with a major league ball club. You cheer him ...