The Literary Adventures of Slugger McBatt

A cool article on MLB.com about Tampa Bay's Fernando Perez, who went to high school where I currently teach. A couple of our faculty were interviewed for the story, which presents Perez as not far off from some of the fictional baseball players in W.P. Kinsella's short stories, who spent time reading in the dugout between innings. It's nice to see an athlete portrayed as an intellectual, and by all accounts Perez was and is an outstanding and well-rounded human being. (Now if he can only help the Rays win three straight games in the World Series!).