thanks for this, I've read enough baseball books in my time to catch the love, I always liked Roger Angell and it was he who talked me through the wonder of hitting a baseball.

And those scientists know nothing. He told me of the mystery of the knuckleball and, by the by, demonstrated why the Jubilani footballs can't fly straight (they're too round). A fastball will rotate 4 to five times on its way to the plate but a curve ball will do 8 or 9, with a baseball that's about 2 inches displacement and when you're swinging a 2 inch bat, that's a strike.

and even tho' the song isn't really about baseball, this always makes me think of it

keep to the Fen Causeway