Last year people gave me advised me to keep busy during retirement. I believe in the cliche "idol hands make for devil's workshop." A few years ago I joined SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) thinking that once I retired I would step-up my activity. Recently, I became an editor for the Games Project. I assign manuscripts for fact-checking. I have also written up a few games for SABR. I must say the editors are really tough. I think I must adjust to writing in the SABR style as nobody edits this journal.
I have read the following two baseball books this month:
Bondy, Filip. 2016. Pine tar game: the Kansas city royals, the new york Yankees, and baseball's most absurd and ... entertaining controversy. New York: Scribner.
Lanctot, Neil. 2012. Campy: the two lives of Roy Campanella. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
I have also made two trips to the Paley Center where I have watched the first two episodes of Ken Burns Baseball. However, Phil Belkin informed me that that series is available on Amazon Prime so I can watch it at home. There are certainly thousands of other TV shows I can watch when I return there.
The best thing a retiree can say is: " I am so busy, I don't how I found time to go to work." I am not quite at that point.
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