Boyz of Summer - SCSU

Boyz of Summer - SCSU Scholars go on at wondrous length (by Blog standards) about the poetry that is baseball.

Speaking of which - if you're looking for a great summer diamond-related read, check out my Dad's book from about five years ago, "Common Ground",which is a tour through North Dakota amateur and minor-league ball going back to the turn of the century. Well worth a read.

Who cares about North Dakota minor-league ball in the 20th century? Hollywood, that's who. Well, maybe. "Pitch Black" may, like any Hollywood project about a non-blow-em-up subject, become a movie about the golden age of Negro League ball, much of which played out in the small-town ballparks of North Dakota in the thirties, when Satchel Paige pitched for Bismark and Josh Gibson played for Jamestown. The movie's been underway for years, and who knows if it'll ever be produced, but the website for the project alone is worth a visit. The story, on the page or the silver screen, is a fascinating one, if you're into baseball played the old-fashioned way.