The Lords of Baseball

Rob Kremer:

How are you doing buddy? Enough rain for you there in soggy Portland? Did Santa bring you that All Season snorkel that you were hoping for? Commuting will be a breeze with that! Just remember that you must snorkel with at least one other snorkler in the diamond lane on the Banfield Expressway. Cardboard cut-outs of Jacques Costeau won't fool those Oregon State troopers!

The Lords of Baseball...haven't read it. Did happen to read The Lord of the Fly Balls by Wright Fielding. Captivating tale of two Little League teams stranded on a deserted baseball diamond...one team plays by the rules and the other team tries to rule through intimidation...I don't want to ruin it for you if you haven't read it yet...but when the creepy guy selling cotton candy on a pike shows up it gets downright scary...

That's pretty cool about your friend and his father, the author. I'll bet he is interested in how his father's controversial book was received...keep us posted.

Happy New Year to you and your family.

Hey Woodie!
Happy New Year to you too.

Yes we are soggy here in Portland but not nearly as bad as those poor chaps in California who just aren't nearly as absorbent as we are.

I browsed around the web about the book.... I guess it is quite the classic. It has its own place in Cooperstown. It also is where a couple well known phrases were coined: Baseball owners are "little boys with big wallets" came from it.

Anyway, I'm gunna get myself a copy.

Hope you are well.

Outstanding book - probably in my top 25 of all time...

I just bought a copy off ebay. It's been called "Ball Four for owners." That's pretty good company.

Gotwood,
Don't you worry about us out here, your going to get this storm soon enough.
Prepare the sand bags!

theEH:

Sand bags ready and waiting Sir!

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Here's the difference with CA...

Last week in CA it was doom and gloom, rivers over banks, parades getting rained on literally and figuratively,...

Two days later it's sunny, the fields bright green and 67 degress. Son went out in shorts and short sleeves for pitching and hitting....

It's already outddor baseball here baby....(sorry, had to let you'all know that we're doing just fine out here on the left-out coast...)

Left out coast?

How about us in the chewy caramel center...all we get is drizzly, cold, damp, weather lately...at least we don't have to shovel!

Rob Kremer, You have a PM.