Busy, busy, busy

I miss you guys. It’s just been so darned busy around here lately that I haven’t had time to write.

The final edits of my new book are due on Friday. I also have to work on a two-minute pitch for the Jewish Book Council which will hopefully generate interest for author appearances at JCCs, synagogues, libraries. etc.

Then I have two speaking engagements coming up for the next two weekends, one primarily for kids, the other for adults (so it’s not like I can recycle the same presentation. Or can I? Hmmm).

Then there’s the multi-baseball title review for Bookreporter.com coming up next week. Finishing up Steve Kettmann’s bio on Mets’ GM Sandy Alderson for that right now, prior to my interview with the author for a Bookshelf Conversation..

And on top of all that, it’s Passover, so my diet is off 🙁

In the meantime, ruminate on this piece via Huffington Post on “The 50 Greatest Baseball Books of All Time.” Pay no attention to the numbers. They aren’t meant to be a ranking; the books are listed alphabetically by author. As usual, there’s plenty of room for debate.

And don’t forget about Tom Hoffarth’s wonderful “30 books in 30 days” feature on his “Farther off the Wall” Blog. Since he writes for the LA Daily News, there’s a lot of California “bias” to his selections. To date, the titles include:

• Tommy Lasorda: My Way
• Out At Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball’s First Openly Gay Player
• Perfect: The Rise and Fall of John Paciorek, Baseball’s Greatest One-Game Wonder
• The Joy of Ballpark Food: From Hot Dogs to Haute Cusine
• 101 Baseball Places To See Before You Strike Out: Second Edition
• 100 Years of Who’s Who in Baseball
• The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager’s Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life

Full disclosure: I’ve been corresponding with Hoffarth for several years and he generously shares links to this here blog for the “more to know” portion of a few of the posts. He also featured 501 Baseball Books as one of his selections when it came out in 2013. Twice, in fact.

Tagged as: ballpark food, Glenn Burke, John Paciorek, Mike Matheny, Tom Hoffarth, Tommy Lasorda, Who's Who in baseball