This blog is primarily about baseball, but I occasionally may dabble in different sports or other random subjects. In the footer at the bottom of this page, I say, “Mostly baseball. No politics. No Religion.” Nothing ruins a good website, social media site, blog, or family gathering like the introduction of politics/and or religion; therefore, I choose to steer clear of those themes.

I grew up in Cheap Hill, Tennessee and am a lifelong Atlanta Braves fan. I keep up with the Nashville Sounds, Nashville Predators, and Vanderbilt Commodores when not following the Braves. I am an avid reader, and some of my favorite books are The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas; A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; The Sea-Wolf by Jack London; Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett; You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe; The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway; A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; Big Fish by Daniel Wallace; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon; The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson; World’s Fair by E.L. Doctorow; and The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I don’t read much poetry, but I am convinced that The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe are the two best poems ever written.

I am a member of the Grantland Rice-Fred Russell Nashville Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). I wrote a weekly column entitled “The Way the Ball Bounces,” mostly about baseball, for our local newspaper in Pleasant View, Tennessee for eleven and a half years. I am a member of the Theta Tau Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha – Brotherhood of Music. I am collecting rejection slips while constantly editing a novel entitled Ghost Man on Second.

I graduated from Cheatham County Central High School in Ashland City, Tennessee and from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. My wife and I reside in Pleasant View. Our son, Sean, lives in Nashville.

I appreciate those of you who visit my blog and read my posts. I look forward to your feedback and comments.