Baseball DIY

Okay, there's a new book due out this Fall, Women Characters in Baseball Literature. It's a good idea I think and long overdue. It is especially annoying to me how women are so rarely portrayed as decent fans of the sport, let alone players or management. One of the things I liked about Field of Dreams was that the wife was onboard with the idea all along and loved to watch the games as well - she was a real fan (Amy Madigan did a great job with this role in the movie.)

But.

When you read the publisher's description of Women Characters it sounds a little heavy on feminist theory. Now I could be totally off base here, but still, it has lots of buzz words that I usually shy away from. Not that I don't support equal rights and all that (I am a woman after all and yes I vote!) but feminists can get a bit heavy handed sometimes and lose sight of the main point. It can become "go women everywhere men suck" instead of "let's talk about women players in literature."

Who knows, maybe I'll be surprised when this title hits the stands, I hope so. Like I said it's an important idea, I just hope they didn't screw it up.