![]() ![]() I knew I wanted to write a series of connected books before I knew what it was going to be about. That story became “One Man to Remember” in the Playing Ball anthology. ![]() I set it in the Jazz Age, not the dead-ball era, but still, I had a new angle on baseball. Then, while watching the Ken Burns Baseball documentary for the third or fourth time and thinking about how weird it is that a guy like Babe Ruth-whose athletic prowess was fueled largely by booze, women, and hot dogs-somehow became one of the greatest ball players of all time, when a story started to form in my mind. Then my brother suggested I write a dead-ball era historical. I readily agreed, though I was worried I wouldn’t be able to come up with a story. ![]() ![]() I’d said what I had to say, I’d written the book of my heart, and I was ready to move on and write about other things.īut this world just kept pulling me back.Ī few years ago, Shae Connor and I decided that we should put together an anthology of baseball stories. I really thought I was done writing about baseball after I finished Out in the Field. ![]()
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