It’s baseball season, and I personally can’t think of a better way to start the season than by reading a bitingly funny, poignant and timely memoir of a baseball season by a New York City writer and fan. That she happens to be my daughter is irrelevant, of course. Emma loves baseball, as her spanking new blog reflects, and her book is a wonderful exploration – I call it a cross between O Henry and Red Smith – of young writer and fan coming to terms with the reality of the sport. And of life in the big city. Check it out. It is available in bookstores and online, of course.

Emma and I will be appearing together at Northshire Books, Manchester, Vt., at 7 p.m., May 8. She will be reading from her new book and talking baseball and fending off outraged Mets and Red Sox fans, and I will be offering a preview of my first novel in ten years, “Rose In A Storm.”