The pump is primed. Bat Krushing is unleashed. We are finishing week 1 of the 2017 season and still can’t get enough baseball! We are already planning next weekend’s tailgate...checking the weather channel app...Figuring out what jersey to don. But we NEED more baseball. Well, here’s your answer: READ. Yep, READ. Consider Athletics Nation’s April book-of-the-month:
The Baseball Codes—Beanballs, Sign Stealing and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime by Jason Turbow.
Chapter one begins with Rickey being Rickey and inflaming opponents when, at 42, and already the Stolen Base King of baseball, he chose to steal second off of the Brewers who had already given up the game, losing 5-12 in the 7th, and moving the infield back.