My new book on knuckleballs has now been published.

Every book that I’ve written is different. This one started before the COVID19 pandemic, and although I left it alone for a while (I wasn’t particularly motivated for a time), I finally decided to continue working on it the last few weeks and it was finally completed.

A lot of research went into this book (most of which came before the pandemic hit), and I’m very proud to have completed it.

Is this one my proudest piece of work? I can’t say that. I’m proud of all of the books I’ve written. This one just took a while to be published, and a big part of the delay was related to motivation.

Special thanks to Michael McCormick for several of the photos used in the book. Special thanks to Michael Unger for spending time to chat baseball cards with me. Special thanks, too, to Stan for chatting sports with me, period. Jason, too, was often checking in and wondering what I was up to.

I think I need to also mention hockey historian Todd Denault. After a conversation with him in late August, I was a little more motivated and really started the process of completing this book. It’s super important to surround yourself and interact with those who take the time to listen and offer insights. For that, I’m appreciative of the conversation with Todd.

EDIT: I also want to thank a couple of journalists: Jeff Pearlman and J.P. Hoornstra. I reached out to both of them via email (shortly after my conversation with Todd Denault) because I had a complicated question about baseball card images. Both took the time to respond despite having extremely busy schedules. For that, I appreciate their gestures. They most certainly didn’t have to respond, but they did… and that definitely pushed me a little to get my book done.