Great stuff Dr. K! I used to love baseball - in the Day of A. Bartlett Giamatti and before. Bart understood.
Oddly enough, tonight I found a great version of Casey at the Bat (Caldecott Honor Book, 2001) which I read for my son at bedtime. It still makes the hair on my neck stand up. He was really sucked into it too.
--- "Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet