Bits and pieces, Nov. 11, 2022

♦ Lots of baseball broadcasters write books, but they’re usually about the game. Not Steve Physioc of the Kansas City Royals. He’s written a number of novels.

♦ Dan Levitt talks about his new book, Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating, written with Mark Armour on Awful Announcing. Look for my Bookshelf Conversation with Mark Armour next week.

♦ From Jason Horowitz in The New Yorker, “A Mets Fan Grows in Italy: My young son loves the Mets from afar, but does he understand baseball heartbreak?

♦ A couple of hyper-local items. First, From Rick Vaughn, 100 Years of Baseball on St. Petersburg’s Waterfront — How the Game Helped Shape a City.” He will discuss the book on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Petersburg Museum of History (see spmoh.com for ticket information). Next we have From Tidewater to the Shenandoah: Snapshots from Virginia’s Rich Baseball Legacy,” co-authored by longtime local sportswriters David Driver and Lacy Lusk.