Baseball books

So I got really interested in finding out how many books I have on the sport of baseball. The answer would be: 53.

Yes I have 53 books on baseball. Atleast...53...just on the sport of baseball. A few might be novels, a few are kids books and some are books on stats...actually I'm sure I have more than 53 there are probably more in odd places in my house.

53

That's a lot of unread pages.

I mean that's a lot of unread books.

Can you believe that in 21 years on this earth that I had atleast 53 books on baseball. I'm still wondering if I have one on Ted Williams that I brought up to Ashburnham. This count is unofficial because I haven't officially looked in Ashburnham yet. I can think of atleast three there, but there could be more.

Baseball is just a part of American culture. It's nostalgic I guess. Everyone is supposed to play. I'm not quite sure if that will be the same for the next couple generations of kids. I'm not sure how much steriods and PED's have really damaged the game.

53 books though. Yikes that is a lot and I'm fairly sure almost all of those were gifts. I have books on Hank Aaron, Bob Gibson, Jackie Robinson, Joe Torre, and Sparky Anderson to name a few.

I also noticed in the book store today that the majority of the books on sports was overwhelmingly on baseball. Obviously part of this is a regional thing. Living in the Northeast with the Yankees and Red Sox...and my Mets, means that baseball will be front in center in the world of sports. I'd estimate that 20-25% of all the books were on baseball. It definetly had the most amount of sections dedicated to the sport.

I went back to the book store for two reasons. First of all the book I was going to read for the summer, Sports from Hell, only took one week to read. Part of that was that I had plenty of time to read. Somehow I'd be up at about 5-6am and there isn't much to do at that time but either read or go fishing when in Ashburnham. It was too cold at that time to exercise.

I really enjoyed reading Rick Reilly because his writing combined two of my favorite things in life, sports and humor. I LAUGH OUT LOUD when I read his work. Hopefully you laugh when I write too. I love Kenny Mayne too. I found his book to be really entertaining and funny, but he doesn't write as much as Reilly does. I bought a book on golf by Reilly because golf is a sport I want to learn about. I don't expect to learn how to hit a golf ball, but I expect to be entertained and learn about the culture of golf aka LIME GREEN PANTS, PINK CHECKERED SHIRTS, AND ARGYLE SOCKS THAT STICK OUT MORE THAN THIS SENTENCE.

I may have a few clothes that are obnoxious enough for me to bring to the course. I guess anything to distract your opponent is good.

I like reading things by Rick Reilly, and as with anything I like I get almost addicted to it. I need it all the time. At one point I will have read all his books and then I will get really mad that he hasn't written another book.

Hopefully people don't check in on my blog and get really annoyed when I don't have a new post. Sometimes I get busy and I can't write. Sometimes I can't write about things because I'm too close to what I would write about. I know that I hate it when I check on a blog and it hasn't been updated since the last time I checked on it. I try my best though to keep things interesting.