Baseball Life Advice

Loving the Game That Saved Me

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A Globe and Mail Best Book

A National Post Best Book of the Year

A passionate ode to baseball, its culture, and its community, which both celebrates and challenges the game – and reminds us why it really matters.

For Stacey May Fowles, the game of baseball is one of "long pauses punctuated by tiny miracles." In this entertaining and thoughtful book, Fowles gives us a refreshingly candid and personal perspective on subjects ranging from bat flips to bandwagoners, from the romance of spring training to the politics of booing, from the necessity of taking a hard look at players' injuries and mental health issues to finding solace at the ballpark.
Fowles confronts head-on the stereotype that female fans lack…

$24.95

April 11, 2017

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STACEY MAY FOWLES is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and essayist. She is a columnist at the Globe and Mail, Open Book Toronto, and Blue Jays Nation, and author of the popular Baseball Life Advice e-newsletter. She has written about sports for Globe Debate, The Walrus, Torontoist, the National Post, Deadspin, Hazlitt, and Vice Sports. She is a frequent guest on Metro Morning and a member of q's sports panel. She lives in Toronto, where she is writing a memoir to be published by McClelland & Stewart.