Not to be maudlin or anything, but I’ve decided to get rid of the vast majority of my baseball library now, rather than leave it for my family when the time comes. It will be refreshing to have all that additional space and maybe free up the attic to me more of a man cave (or can you not have a man cave that high up?).
A few of my Facebook acquaintances have offered to take some off my hands. And by some I mean several hundred.
This leads to a quandary, donor’s remorse if you will.
What to keep?
I know there are those who do this, but I rarely re-read anything, except if it comes to research for other projects. With so much new stuff continually published, I feel it’ something of a waste of time.
At the same time, while I’m reconciled with the decision to “divest,” I know there are some I will want to retain, such as the works of Leonard Koppett, whose titles I keep in a section I admiringly call Koppett’s Korner. Although I have never been one for collecting autographs, I also plan on keeping anything signed by the authors to me personally (as opposed to them just scribbling their name). And books about baseball writing and writers; I’ll probably keep most of them, too as I will a few anthologies, although a fair number of essays get a bit repetitive from one volume to another. Some reference works pose a problem since they become outdated.
But I remain resolute in my goals.
Excelsior!
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I think you would really like "The Nats and the Grays How Baseball in the Nation's Capital Survived WWII and Changed the Game Forever," published by Rowman & Littlefield in May. I believe the publisher has sent you a review copy.
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