I am about 150 pages into a suspense thriller in which both the protagonist and the antagonist are athletes in year 1970. One is a pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers. At first, he was not going to be as much a character as he became, so now I find myself needing to learn about baseball. This guy's core is really eluding me, as I am add and expect any sporting event to last only 2 minutes, or the time it takes a horse to run 1-1/4 mile around an oval track. I want to know the "heart and soul" of Baseball, so I can write from his Godlike perspective. If there are any Baseball people out there who can sucker me into getting stoked on spitballs, I would be much obliged. I may even end up liking Baseball. I need, especially, what "guys who play baseball" talk about amongst themselves. RBIs? Sports cars? Cigars? How do you find out those statistics? Is there a newbie site that talks about those sort of things? Thank you.
Oh, I own the book: True Blue "The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Told by the Men who lived it" by Steve Delsohn
Oh, I own the book: True Blue "The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Told by the Men who lived it" by Steve Delsohn
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