Me and Catherine Morland - Out at the ball game

My eldest son begins his very first little league baseball season today. Compared to other boys today, his age is quite advanced for a beginner - he's already NINE. What an old man, in baseball years.

In honor of the two games he'll play this weekend and the subsequent lack of reading I'll be doing, here's my all-time favorite baseball literary quote. (Incidentally, it may also be the very first)

...it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books  

- from the opening paragraphs of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

How I love Catherine Morland! How we all love Henry Tilney!