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Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith’s 2007 memoir, Extra Innings takes a honest and amusing look at life on the senior circuit. No, not the National League, but the amateur baseball leagues that fill the towns across the country. Smith, a resident of Baltimore, took some time to answer a few questions about the nuts-and-bolts of working with McFarland […]

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Review: Extra Innings

January 22, 2008

Extra Innings: The Joy and the Pains of Over-30 Baseball by Patrick Smith McFarland, 2007 As an, ahem, over-30 athlete myself, I could emphasize with Smith’s funny and thoughtful memoir of those of us still in love with playing a kid’s game; knowing better, but afraid to give it up, afraid to capitulate to he […]

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