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!
