The Super Bowl is over; spring training still doesn’t open for a couple of weeks.
Someone should come up with a name describing this period, where all there is, is basketball and hockey. Kind of a sports limbo.
But now it’s time to catch up.
Started in earnest working on the next book, a history of the Maccabiah Games, aka the Jewish Olympics. It’s a quadrennial event, held in Israel the year after the regular Olympics, which brings together thousands of Jewish athletes from all over the world. In fact, it’s the third largest event, after the Olympics and University Games. It will be published by Skyhorse Press next year, so while I have a little longer deadline than I did with 501 Baseball Books, there’s a lot more work involved. Baseball books are my meat (pardon the term from a vegetarian), but this requires a lot more research, much of which is difficult to come by.
So the consequences are that I’ll have less time to read baseball works. Either that or get by on less sleep. I think I prefer the latter. The new titles are still coming in (reading Ed Sherman’s book about Bare Ruth’s so-called called shot right now) and I’ll be getting to them as much as I can. Next week I’ll be chatting with Peter Schwartz, co-author of Baseball as a Road to God for a podcast edition of the Bookshelf. So life goes on.
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