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From the Publisher
With Roads To Redemption - A Guide To Major League Baseball we have merely helped the author to fill an enormous gap in the UK sports book market: the place where a baseball fan goes to get themselves informed about the American game. According to 5's erstwhile pundit Josh Chetwynd, who now resides in Arizona studying Law, this is the first mainstream work on the subject to come out of Britain since 1987. We thought this a pretty desperate state of affairs and we're only too happy to play some sort of part in correcting the situation. Over to Craig.
From the Author
The point of Roads To Redemption was for me to work on a book that would keep me in a place of permanent pleasure and enlightenment. To be able to write is always a delight. To be able to use that situation to learn about the substance of a new hobby was wonderful. When I had finished writing for the day, family chores allowing, I would go read a book about the subject or watch a tape of a game. It isn't what I'd always defined as work, I can tell you that.
And obviously, here was a mission for some writer other to set off on: to put out a book on baseball and be British at the same time. The idea that fans of the game could go into major bookstores in the UK in big provincial towns and find nothing on the shelves about it - and I did this many times before I gave up in disgust - was so ridiculous that whilst the Florida Marlins were beating the Yankees in the (October) 2003 World Series I decided that it was my fate to walk down that road to publication unless someone got there first.
The only difficulties were twofold: firstly, I had to lose a chapter out of the book because the Boston Red Sox went and won the World Series. This being one of the most important events to have taken place in all of sport since the turn of the Millenium, in my humbly opinionated state of mind, I had to write about it for the book; it would have been ridiculous to have done otherwise. Crash! went a chapter about my trip to the States in April 2004 to Boston, New York and Cooperstown. For this reason, the book for me is unfinished (is an author ever satisfield with his/her work? I doubt it). So, I watch the sales situation here in the late Spring, knowing that if the book does well enough I'm going to produce an updated and re-organised work on the same subject for the Spring of 2006. The second problem is that - and I daresay that again, a lot, if not all writers say this: the finished Roads, for all that I think it is readable and useable, and I hope enjoyable in parts, I can see glitches and wrinkles in the thing. Hey, it's my baby we're talking about here. I nurtured the thing from nothing. I watched it grow in embryonic form and eventually introduced it into the world. I've bashed it, shaped it and controlled it, while it has bitten me, teased me and kept me awake nights. While all this was going on, time passed by quickly. In the headlong rush of days towards an April 1 2005 release date, rough spots that should have been carefully burred remained in tact. Damn! I need that 2006 version to bring it all back home again in perfect shape. Of course, I'll fail, but that's the writer's dream.
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With Roads To Redemption - A Guide To Major League Baseball we have merely helped the author to fill an enormous gap in the UK sports book market: the place where a baseball fan goes to get themselves informed about the American game. According to 5's erstwhile pundit Josh Chetwynd, who now resides in Arizona studying Law, this is the first mainstream work on the subject to come out of Britain since 1987. We thought this a pretty desperate state of affairs and we're only too happy to play some sort of part in correcting the situation. Over to Craig.
From the Author
The point of Roads To Redemption was for me to work on a book that would keep me in a place of permanent pleasure and enlightenment. To be able to write is always a delight. To be able to use that situation to learn about the substance of a new hobby was wonderful. When I had finished writing for the day, family chores allowing, I would go read a book about the subject or watch a tape of a game. It isn't what I'd always defined as work, I can tell you that.
And obviously, here was a mission for some writer other to set off on: to put out a book on baseball and be British at the same time. The idea that fans of the game could go into major bookstores in the UK in big provincial towns and find nothing on the shelves about it - and I did this many times before I gave up in disgust - was so ridiculous that whilst the Florida Marlins were beating the Yankees in the (October) 2003 World Series I decided that it was my fate to walk down that road to publication unless someone got there first.
The only difficulties were twofold: firstly, I had to lose a chapter out of the book because the Boston Red Sox went and won the World Series. This being one of the most important events to have taken place in all of sport since the turn of the Millenium, in my humbly opinionated state of mind, I had to write about it for the book; it would have been ridiculous to have done otherwise. Crash! went a chapter about my trip to the States in April 2004 to Boston, New York and Cooperstown. For this reason, the book for me is unfinished (is an author ever satisfield with his/her work? I doubt it). So, I watch the sales situation here in the late Spring, knowing that if the book does well enough I'm going to produce an updated and re-organised work on the same subject for the Spring of 2006. The second problem is that - and I daresay that again, a lot, if not all writers say this: the finished Roads, for all that I think it is readable and useable, and I hope enjoyable in parts, I can see glitches and wrinkles in the thing. Hey, it's my baby we're talking about here. I nurtured the thing from nothing. I watched it grow in embryonic form and eventually introduced it into the world. I've bashed it, shaped it and controlled it, while it has bitten me, teased me and kept me awake nights. While all this was going on, time passed by quickly. In the headlong rush of days towards an April 1 2005 release date, rough spots that should have been carefully burred remained in tact. Damn! I need that 2006 version to bring it all back home again in perfect shape. Of course, I'll fail, but that's the writer's dream.
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