This is from an e-mail blast by A Cappella Books (3/22/10). A Cappella is the little indy bookstore in Little Five Points with the mighty heart.

The Boys of Summer

We started our publishing imprint, everthemore books, to re-issue such titles as Rodger Brown's Party Out of Bounds and Paul Hemphill's The Nashville Sound. With Peter Case's As Far As You Can Get Without a Passport, we ventured into publishing original works. And, now, just in time for baseball season, we have published another entirely new title, Ball Crazy by Atlanta writer Hal Jacobs.

Hal is a former contributor to the book pages of The Atlanta Journal Constitution (remember those?) who has helped others write books, but this is his first. Though unlike our other titles, the new book doesn't deal with the world of music, we think it fits into our catalogue nicely. Ball Crazy is a personal, thoughtful, finely-written account of a topic that could be easily dismissed as mere hobby or entertainment, but in Hal's hands, it is more of a consideration of conflicting and irrational passion, the kind of stuff that often makes us crazy.

Ball Crazy is available now in the store and online. Saturday, April 17 will be the book's official launch, around the corner from the scene of the story, Medlock Park, at Eagle Eye Books in Decatur.