Baseball's Best Short Stories Book

A lot of stories that I skimmed or skipped entirely. I got really tired of the bulk of the women in these stories being the Delilah--you know, having power over a baseball player's skill, either ruining it (love makes you incapable of playing baseball!) or escalating it (he's so happy in love, he can't be stopped!). Even then, there aren't a lot of women in this, and just the barest acknowledgement that women & girls are fans, too--or *gasp* can play ball! I would have given a lot to have read a single goddamned story about the Girls Professional Baseball League.

That being said, the story I found the most offensive was the literary effort that had the protagonist *choosing* to get gangrene in his leg and having it amputated, because it...dragged his teenaged son out of his angry Goth phase? FFS.

The stories I liked the best: The Pitcher & the Plutocrat by P. G. Wodehouse and A Family Game by Brendan DuBois.