Baseball DIY

Now this is a surprise. Stefan Fatsis who wrote Wordfreak, a book about Scrabble, of all things, is a Wallstreet Journal sportswriter who also happened to write one of the more intriguing sounding books on minor league baseball that I have come across in a long time: Wild and Outside. In this interview with Spike, Fatsis manages to sound perfectly normal, inspite of a borderline obsession with word games. I'm more interested though in how he found out about an obscure minor league in the Northern Midwest and Canada. The book doesn't look so easy to come by from amazon, but Daedalus Books has it for a very reasonable $4.98. That's cheap enough to pick up the Scrabble book as well...hey it is competitive isn't it? Does that make it a hobby or a sport?

Anybody?