Just because we're in the long and lonely offseason, with Spring Training so very far away, doesn't mean that Emily and Kelly don't have baseball in their hearts and on their minds! This week they go back to their old friend, historical fiction, to read Virginia Euwer Wolff's 1998 tale "Bat 6", about youth sports in a post-World War II town. It's time for Another Sad Book as they discuss sports, spice cake, and generational trauma in the aftermath of WWII. So, uh. Maybe drink some wine with this one.
Content Note: This book contains themes relating to racism, Japanese internment camps, and racially-motivated violence. So if you're not in a headspace for that, this may be one for you to skip.
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Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)
Next episode: "Talking to Dragons" by Patricia Wrede
Episode 26 - Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Episode 25 - Beauty
Episode 24 - Anne of Green Gables
Episode 23 - The Island
Episode 22 - James and the Giant Peach
Episode 21 - Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Episode 20 - Talking to Dragons
Episode 18 - Walk Two Moons
Episode 17 - The Golden Compass
Episode 16 - It's Like This, Cat
Episode 15 - My Teacher is an Alien
Episode 14 - The Serpent's Children
Episode 13 - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Episode 12 - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Episode 11 - The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
Episode 10 - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Episode 9 - My Side of the Mountain
Episode 8 - A Wrinkle in Time
Episode 7 - Holes
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