The end of the weekend mail

All right, folks.

Early wakeup, long travel day (I’ll be thinking of you during my three-plus hours in Dallas, perhaps) so I’ll get to whatever comments there are when I can.

Enjoy.

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Q: I'm sure you have answered this before, but do you have a recommendation for a quality book about the history of Major League baseball?

Thanks

Kelly A, Toronto

A: Wow, there so many different eras and different storylines that one definitive book is almost impossible to come up with.

But I’d start with The Glory Of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter and then I’d do Five Seasons and The Summer Game by Roger Angell and if you could find