Baseball Library 2

The balance of my baseball library, containing some of the more obscure and whimsical volumes. A book on the only pennant ever won by the St. Louis Browns. Baseball in Japan. "Autobiographies." A biography of Bo Belinsky (whose name was rhymed by Allan Sherman with Igor Stravinsky).

I've had most of these books for a long time. The volume of  deathless "as told to" prose stylings of Gaylord Perry in The Spitter and Me I remember buying in a Woolworth's in Downtown Brooklyn, long gone. The black smudges on the Belinsky biography were the result of reading the book while also operating a printing press. I wasn't a very neat (or good, or attentive) printer. So some books function the way snapshots do--a way of holding on to the past.