Decatur Online News posts Q&A about the book

Check out this Q&A about the book from a relatively new online newspaper, Decatur Online News. Here's the introduction:

Like a pitcher bouncing around the minor leagues, local writer Hal Jacobs has had an up-and-down experience with the game of baseball. As a fan, he grew up listening to the Braves on the radio, switched his allegiance to the Baltimore Orioles in the late 1960's, then became, what he calls "a baseball agnostic" from 1970 until the magical 1991 Braves came along.

As a player, he grew up on the baseball sandlots of Jacksonville with his friends, but did not play beyond his teenage years. Baseball, however, became his passion when his sons took the ball fields in and around Decatur, Georgia. The sport took hold of him from the inside out and got all wrapped up with his love for his two boys.

Eventually his passion for his sons and for baseball collided with his craft of writing. In 2004 the freelance writer and editor at Emory University began a project that led to this year's publishing of his new book, Ball Crazy : Confessions of a Dad-Coach, published by Everthemore Books, an imprint of A Cappella Books in Little Five Points.