Baseball DIY

The new issue of Elysian Fields Quarterly is out with Images of Fenway, a look at the numbers game and a slew of book reviews. Among the more than 400 pages of great comics in the new collection Flight Vol. 2, there is a story about Cuban ballplayers, Beisbol, by Richard Pose. Do your friendly local comics store a favor and buy yourself a copy of the book; mine is sitting right here by my computer and I'm loving it. Tom Swift over at Baseball Almanac has an important column about science writer Stephen Jay Gould, who passed away in 2002 (far far too young). Gould was a baseball fan and wrote about the sport, and Swift is clearly a fan of Gould's. If you have any interest in natural history at all, Gould is your man. Finally, October will bring us Jinxed, the final word on all the little paranoid things a player will do to win a game.

Just in case you want an excuse to wear the same pair of underwear for an entire season, you might want to plan on picking that one up.