The problems with libraries today

December 28, 2011 · 4 comments

How can they call themselves a library when their entire catalog of baseball titles consists of 11 books?

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1 Strikethree December 28, 2011 at 3:57 pm: If you post the library’s mailing address, I would be more than glad to media-mail a copy of my recent book, “STRIKE THREE! My Years in the ‘Pen”. It will be read for the second straight year by the Baseball Literature Class at Cleveland St. Ignatius High School.
2 Anonymous December 28, 2011 at 4:23 pm: It’s not MY library, but if you go to the site and find out how to respond to Carson Cistulli, perhaps he can tell you. (BTW, S3 is still on my to-read list. Sorry for the delay.)
3 rslitman December 28, 2011 at 7:40 pm: There are a lot of libraries in small towns, townships, and boroughs, especially in Pennsylvania and other states where the libraries have traditionally been town-run rather than county-run. I don’t think Montgomery County, MD, located just outside deprived-of-baseball-for-33-seasons Washington, DC, would have such a small baseball collection in any of its county-run libraries (even the one town-run library in that county had a decent-sized baseball collection in the kids section when I was young). But in Montgomery County, PA, just outside of baseball-crazed Philadelphia, where most of the libraries are small and town-run, I wouldn’t be surprised to see such a puny collection in many of their libraries.
4 Anonymous December 29, 2011 at 10:42 am: Not having visited the facility mentioned in the story, I don’t know the size of the library. It could be that there’s just no room. I understand decisions have to be made as to what to stock and baseball might not high on the priority list. Still, given our penchant, it’s sad to see so little representation.