Comments on: Baseball Game 10 Commandments – Part 3

By: dewluca

dewluca — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:07:19 +0000

Larry & Babs,

I’d love to be part of any future book review team. I’m part of LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program and have reviewed a couple of baseball books: one on Baseball and Philosophy and another called Your Brain on Cubs. The reviews are on LT and sometimes on my blog.

I haven’t cataloged all my baseball books, but you can see some of them at:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/gocubsgo&deepsearch=baseball

Larry, I’d love a bookmark . . . will wander over to your site now . . .

By: KL

KL — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:41:52 +0000

I’m with you, Mike. The closest I’ve gotten was a few years ago. My dad was in a wheelchair temporarily and my brother and his family were visiting from Alaska, and our family of eight were in the upper deck between home and 1st (closer to home, if I recall correctly). There was one seat next to Dad, then the rest of us were in the row behind him. Dad was mostly sitting forward for the game, and his wheelchair actually caught a foul ball. I was a little heartbroken when my dad handed the ball to my brother.

A second one landed right in front of my dad, but he wasn’t able to grab it before it rolled away and someone else got it (I was sitting in the row behind him at the time, so couldn’t get to it either).

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:23:58 +0000

Regarding No. 6; not only would I not throw it back I wouldn’t give it to a kid, either. I have been waiting to catch a home run or even a foul ball at a game since I was 6 years old and came down to the Twin Cities for our annual trek to see the Twins at the Met. The closest I have come to getting a foul was at the Dome. A ball flew up in the air and landed in my seat….

.while I was out having a cigarette.

Kids, just another reason not to start smoking.

By: CapitalBabs

CapitalBabs — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:45:03 +0000

Larry, that sounds fantastic! We’ve planned on doing several book reviews here on this site and I think that would fit right in. Obviously, the basic concept appeals to me. *grin* I’ll email you with contact information.

By: Larry SCP

Larry SCP — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:12:38 +0000

Capitalbabs,
Historically, there have always been nuisances at the old ballgame. At one time, female fans used to wear Merry Widow hats which would take up about as much viewing space as a huge pumpkin.

I was attracted to your site by the 10 Commandments pitch. My company has published a book called The 10 Commandments of Baseball – it discusses and illustrates the original 10 Commandments of Baseball written by legendary manager, Joe McCarthy. If you would like to review it for your readers (makes a great Father’s Day present) let me know and I’ll send you one. Meanwhile, if you readers are interested in getting a copy of the Commandments themselves, I have them printed on a book mark that I’d be happy to send them since it doubles as an add for my book. To get one all they have to do is register at my site. I am a small publisher (three books thus far) so they are not going to get inundated with email after they sign up.

By: James

James — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:25:52 +0000

I never understood why anyone would want to bring a beach ball to a ball game

By: Jim Crikket

Jim Crikket — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:43:31 +0000

Whew… I think we may have finally hit on some commandments I haven’t already violated! Maybe there’s hope for my baseball soul, yet!