What’s your safety read? What’s the book or article you go back to over and over again, at the expense of newer things to read, even when you could probably recite every word by memory with your eyes closed and one hand behind your back?
One of my safety reads is a Ben Lindbergh piece from 2014 about Robinson Canó, who had just reported for spring training with the Mariners, after walking away from the New York Yankees, the only club he had ever played for. In eight seasons in the Bronx, he accrued almost 36 fWAR, had some truly elite, MVP caliber seasons, and perhaps most important, once he became a fulltime player averaged 160 games a year.