I love Baseball

So, as usual, I watch the chats on ESPN with their writers, and always send in maybe one question each time, just for chuckles, or so I don't feel like I'm not at least trying. Well, I guess you could say lightening struck twice, I got another question answered:

Jim (Washington, DC): Rob, what do you think are the top 10 baseball books?

Rob Neyer: (12:49 PM ET ) Jim, I don't have the list handy anymore, but you can't wrong by starting with Jim Bouton's "Ball Four", Bill James's "Historical Baseball Abstract", and Lawrence Ritter's "The Glory of Their Times". Once you've read those, I'll have some more.

Pretty cool hu? I have been reading as much as I can about baseball, and have found some really great books. It all started out with the Josh Hamilton book. I thought it was extremely entertaining, and that lead me to explore other books. I just bought four new books, and was hoping none of them would be mentioned by Rob Neyer, and luckily they weren't. AWESOME, I have more to add!

Back to the O's, a few quick notes about the roster
- They signed Mark Hendrickson and Koji Uehara to help them in the rotation. Uehara is known for his great control, and Hendrickson for his height, you can guess which is the better pitcher.

-Chris Gomez signed a minor league deal, he is a very versatile player, good.

-Apparently Greg Zaun is close to signing on as a mentor to Matt Wieters.

I'll bring you more as I can. I am really interested to see the young pitchers who are moving up from AA to AAA. Lets see if they rise to the occasion.