Hey. My dad was born in 1945, so I've probably only got two or three decades left to talk with him, and I'm trying to develop some shared interests.
He liked this mornings Ethan Strauss newsletter defending Nate Silver and wrote a funny, passionate response, so I want to try following this year's World Series with him.
Does anyone know of other good resources to help me prepare? Not, like, deep dive books, but maybe a good primer to just have a basic knowledge of baseball. My dad grew up in the 50s, so he was really into the sport with his friends—but I don't know what he'd have chosen if he'd grown up in a decade with more than one sport. In the 90s, he signed me up for soccer and didn't lose any interest at all when I switched to stage crew and mock trial. So I know he knows a fair amount about baseball and I just want to learn enough to bond a little—maybe one or two thin books, no big tomes.
Also, how many weeks do I have before the first game? I think it's pretty soon.
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Getting into a sport is more difficult than one would think. It really requires spending time consuming games, highlights, articles, podcasts, and talk radio. The age of my life where I was most into sports (especially baseball) was in college when I lived with three other guys who were also very into baseball. The TV stayed on MLB network or ESPN all day everyday.
For your purposes, I would start with watching the World Series on TV and getting an idea of who the biggest names are. If you want to take a deeper dive, you can listen to MLB podcasts or sports radio. If you’re really wed to literature (which I think is a poor way to learn about a sport), Michael Lewis’s Moneyball is a good, easy read.
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