Words With - Short Films by Matt Austin

by Stacey May Fowles

In February of last year, Canadian Notes and Queries publisher Dan Wells kindly approached me with a question. “Brainstorming a games issue of CNQ,” he wrote in an email. “Wondered if you might want to talk about your love of baseball as part of it.”

Anyone who knows me understands that I certainly never shy away from writing about my love of the game. In the past five years, baseball has evolved into an absurdly large part of my life, both in the ballpark and on the page. I’m constantly preoccupied with what it means that it has become such a (perhaps irrational) passion, and so much of my writing about teams, players, and tiny baseball dramas has to do with getting at the root of that adoration.