I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
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There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
I just want to play baseball.
Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.