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Crash Course · 08-23-2005, 12:59 PM

I just recieved this note, via e-mail, today regarding The Baseball Same Game -

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I purchased a copy of your book for myself and for a gift for my father (who is 80 years old).
As a poor kid growing up in Brooklyn, he couldn't afford to go to baseball games but was able to follow baseball through the radio and the newspaper.
He was a math whiz and had an incredible memory of baseball statistics.
Going to games with him when I was young was an experience.
So many facts and records were mentioned during a nine-inning game that my head would spin.
My mother has dealt with this obsession for over 50 years.
Things were pretty quiet for them in Florida following the Marlins and the New York teams until I mailed him your book.
It seems that his baseball juices starting flowing again and he hasn't put the book down since he started reading it.
I called him the other day to see if he liked the book and he mentioned a few of the chapters that he really liked - Pierce vs. Drysdale, Hornsby vs. Mantle.
He told me the height of each pitcher and their records and the memories of baseball he had growing up in New York with the Dodgers, Giants and the Yankees.
He loves your book and based on your references to other statistical works, he's off to the library to see what else he can read.
There's good and bad new to end my e-mail.
My father has shared his love of your book with other senior citizens in his Florida community and they all sit around and discuss the comparisons.
That's the good news. The bad news is that they are all reading the copy of the book I sent my father.
At least there are people reading and enjoying your book.
A baseball fan.
Jeff

Stuff like this just makes my day!

Makofan · 08-23-2005, 01:49 PM

Well, that is a great gift to receive! I would say the book has done its job Steve.

Crash Course · 08-23-2005, 02:12 PM

Thanks.
It's nice to see that generations outside my own like it.

PianoMonkey · 08-23-2005, 06:45 PM

I don't know if anybody here will get this one (and it is a joke), but here goes:

PLANT!

Crash Course · 08-24-2005, 11:12 AM

Nah, this is a true story.
I do know the guy who bought the books - but, this is his true story.

08-23-2005, 02:12 PM	#3
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Thanks. It's nice to see that generations outside my own like it. __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

08-23-2005, 06:45 PM	#4
PianoMonkey Inducted Into The NetShrine Assembly of Fame Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: (Former) Home of the Blades Posts: 838	I don't know if anybody here will get this one (and it is a joke), but here goes: PLANT! __________________ "We can’t win at home, we can’t win on the road, and quite frankly, I don’t know where else to play.”

08-24-2005, 11:12 AM	#5
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Nah, this is a true story. I do know the guy who bought the books - but, this is his true story. __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

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Makofan Inducted Into The NetShrine Assembly of Fame Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 791	Well, that is a great gift to receive! I would say the book has done its job Steve.

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