Feature

The Week contest: Baseball book - April 15, 2011

It's baseball season again — baseball book season, that is. Predict the name of the next baseball book to focus on some very obscure aspect of the sport or its history

A sure as that first pitch of opening season, the annual deluge of new baseball books see the light of day.

CC BY: eschapp

Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.

Click here for results of last week's contest: Kid sign

Results: The start of baseball season has brought the usual flood of books on the glories of the national pastime. Please give us the name of a book that might focus on some obscure aspect of the sport.

THE WINNER: The Art of Spitting: From Cobb to FranconaJohn Ryan, Havervill, MA SECOND PLACE: The Evolving Mound: Not Just a Pile of DirtRobbie Heyman, Sante Fe, N.M. THIRD PLACE: Keeping Home Plate Clean—An Umpire's StoryBill Harriot, Fort Washington, MD

Gambian president headed for landslide re-election

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_card-mobile@1/v1638724500/GettyImages-1237031231.jpg { display: none !important; }

Last day in Greece

Pope warns politicians not to exploit 'fear of the other'

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_card-mobile@1/v1638720503/GettyImages-1149270739.jpg { display: none !important; }

Daily briefing

10 things you need to know today: December 5, 2021

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_card-mobile@1/v1638650078/ortho%20priest%20screenshot.jpg { display: none !important; }

Heretic!

Orthodox priest heckles Pope Francis in Greece

Most Popular

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_card-mobile@1/v1638544496/mace%20greene2.jpg { display: none !important; }

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/private/s--Az3cPMzN--/f_auto,t_author-small-mobile@1/v1608258761/author-images/wjamesantleiii_full.png { display: none !important; }

W. James Antle III

Mace vs. Greene is the fight for the future of the GOP

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_card-mobile@1/v1638478750/GettyImages-497626100%20%281%29.jpg { display: none !important; }

'I loved that gig'

Kathy Griffin slams CNN for firing her but not Jeffrey Toobin

.imgHideOnJavaScriptDisabled_https://mediacloud.theweek.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_card-mobile@1/v1638553534/GettyImages-1341720611.jpg { display: none !important; }

the doctor is in