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With no baseball, I'm finding some great baseball writing a solid replacement. An online sports magazine - The Athletic - rivals the writing of Sports Illustrated in its heyday, when it had Dan Jenkins, Roy Blount, Jr., Frank Deford, and Curry Kirkpatrick. My favorite on the Athletic is Joe Posnanski, He just finished a list of his top 100 baseball players of all time, including an essay on each player - some of which were fascinating and others of which are moving. He wrote about the players, warts and all, but based the ranking on the quality of the baseball they played, It is a subscription service, but the Posnanski contributions alone are worth the price.
Having finished that list (which exceeded the word count of Moby Dick), I have four other baseball books going: a Roger Angell collection, Nine Innings by Daniel Okrent, Men at Work by George Will, and Right on Time by Buck O'Neil. Re-watching the Ken Burns baseball series motivated me to find the work of some of the talking heads. These make the quarantine a blessing in disguise, even if they do rob me of the discipline to focus on telework.
Regards,
D-Ray
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Then I'll get on my knees and pray,
We won't get fooled again; Don't get fooled again
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