Welcome to Litsy!

1. Strong Sense of Place did a baseball episode! I may or may not have recommended the tagged book/series, but I‘m taking credit for its inclusion anyway. 😎In any case, I can definitely take credit for the series being added to cozymystery.com.
2. My friends are enjoying their vacation in Utah.
3. I took a walk by the mighty Raritan River and saw a heron.
4. The cats are warming to my presence. Here‘s Steve in the cat tree.⬇️
#5joysfriday

Thank you for card and bracelet, Maja! #summercardswap

Very short read to introduce the reader to Glenn Burke, the first openly gay man in professional baseball. Would love to say things have improved but with people like Clayton Kershaw still wielding power in the Dodgers clubhouse, it‘s an uphill battle.

Continuing celebrating the new lady umpire with haikus about my favorite baseball movie. Each is separate & goes with each pic.

dear Dottie, despite

being a hottie, played baseball

as well as any man.

one rule above all:

despite a bad call, there's

no crying in baseball.

with all your faults, she

loves you still — had to be you,

wonderful you, Nelson.

sisterly friction

spices up the competition —

may the best one win.

Need to use up my credits before ending my relationship with Audible for the time being. I chose this book because baseball has come full circle and is now becoming beholden to the gamblers again. It‘s a sad thing to see the commissioner “pardon” Pete Rose, et al, after being pressured by our mobster/wanna be dictator president.

#baseball

#weeklyfavorites

This was a fantastic book. It wove the story of Brooklyn, the Dodgers, Brooklynites, and the two men—O‘Malley and, especially, Moses, who turned it all on its head. Funny aside: I was listening to it as we drove to our camp and my older son, who does not know baseball, heard Moses‘ name and gagged. He knows how Moses ruined the Brooklyn, among others.

#baseball
#dodgers

So today, Jen Pawol became the first woman to umpire in a regular season MLB game. Pretty cool it was for a Braves game, I must say. Very exciting. 🤓

today, Jen becomes

the first woman to ump an

MLB game — score!

Braves vs. Marlins,

she umps the first base line with

quiet excellence.

#haikuhive #poetry #MLB #baseball

He‘s all finished! This handsome guy took longer than I thought but I think it was worth it!

#litsycrafters #showandtelltuesday

Laundry day. We were supposed to be preparing to camp but now we‘re on fire again. :( Trying to find a replacement campground now.