Sometimes you read a book and think damn, I wish I’d written this first. That’s what I think with every line I read from my “new” book, Dan Schlossberg’s Baseball Bits. I say new because it was written in 2008, but most of the bits are from like the 1930s so it still plays. Basically just imagine a giant list of interesting things about baseball. And yeah, that’s it. It’s perfect.

The only trouble is, it takes me about 20 minutes to read each page, as I have to look up every little fact and take a deeper dive into the stats and circumstances. Invariably it leads down a weird rabbit hole (is there any other kind?) and I find myself investigating airspeed velocities of unladen swallows or some such thing.

So yeah, it’s just about perfect.

But damn I wish I thought to write it first.