I’m super happy at all the praise.
Sigal suggests this:
What I miss in Zumsteg’s entertaining manual for baseball delinquents is any serious reference to pitchers throwing murderously inside balls at batters (beaning), runners sliding spikes high into second base to prevent a double play (and, if possible, fracture the baseman’s leg) or other career-ending tricks that have always been part of professional baseball.
There was a chapter on head hunting (in fact, I’ve got a whole file on it) but like equipment, got cut to make the word count.
I promise to hit that up here on the blog, where I can discuss without length considerations.
Paul | 04-Apr-07 at 11:14 am | Permalink
Seems to me that the review is good ammunition to send to the publisher, saying “should have left that chapter in there”. Maybe they could add it for a later edition?
Paul
DMZ | 04-Apr-07 at 12:40 pm | Permalink
I guess — at this point, there’s been no talk about future editions at all, and if they are, I think we’d still be bound by the constraints of the trade paper format– but yeah, I’ll talk about some of the tradeoffs we made in a “making of” post at some point.