{"id":5550,"date":"2025-07-13T01:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5550\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T01:21:11","slug":"defector-reads-a-baseball-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5550\/","title":{"rendered":"Defector Reads A Baseball Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you find yourself remembering a book. Such was the case a few weeks ago, when someone\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/exhaustdata\/status\/1936844809529962525\" target=\"_blank\">dropped this tweet<\/a>\u00a0into our DRAB Slack channel. &#8220;In 2012 it seemed like every single person in New York City was reading The Art of Fielding,&#8221; it read. &#8220;On Goodreads it has 30,000 more ratings than Infinite Jest, and almost 3x as many readers as 2666. And yet it\u2019s just completely gone. Never discussed. Zero impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well guess what, buddy: We&#8217;re going to discuss The Art Of Fielding here and now, in the year 2025. It is true that this book was what you might call a &#8220;hot release&#8221; back in 2012\u2014I personally remember every sports and sports-adjacent blogger at the time reading and talking about it\u2014and it&#8217;s not inaccurate to point out that it doesn&#8217;t seem to have left much of a cultural impression. But who actually cares about all of that? What we&#8217;re here to find out is if this book is any good. I was certainly charmed by it when I read it in 2012\u2014It&#8217;s a baseball book that&#8217;s also a campus book that&#8217;s also kind of about Moby Dick? Wow!\u2014and I am curious to find out if the grizzled, 37-year-old version of me will be able to find things to like about it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I just watched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/eephus-director-carson-lund-on-baseball-as-a-way-of-being\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Eephus<\/a>\u00a0and really enjoyed it, so I&#8217;m in the mood for sentimental baseball stories.<\/p>\n<p>Join us here on July 30 to find out how it holds up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes you find yourself remembering a book. Such was the case a few weeks ago, when someone\u00a0dropped this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-5550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}