In an odd twist of fate Joe Adler from my AEPi fraternity days wrote a book on Baseball hacks. I have a copy of it near Madeline's crib but thus far reading from it has not been satisfactory for putting Madeline to sleep. She is a fan of the page with Chernoff faces on it (pg. 188) although I believe that Joe made a special effort to make the Boston Redsox look more evil than the New York Yankees bassed on his personal bias. At a minimum that page could be used for creating a new cartoon series about each baseball team. Toronto and Tampa Bay both look like worried midgets, Anaheim looks like a chinese coolie, and Cleveland is the only team that really looks like a human but looks mostly like A Rod. The book is quite good not just for baseball fans but also for some fun exercises in statistics that could be used to help president Bush to get kids more interested in math and science through the guise of baseball and gambling.

Joe was interviewed about his book on NPR and it can be found temporarily at Future Tense and should be archived at the February 13th episode page.