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| (134) rachel nyssen Tue, 1 June 2010 22:07:16 +0000 |
dear BSG:
word of mouth is great, isn't it?
this is essentially a fan mail, i guess, but i don't know where else to put it.
we first heard about you last year, in this small world of ours-- (where my friend has a brother, who lives in pasadena, who i guess kind of knows you.) so we watched clips on youtube, and my husband laughed til he cried, (which is not common) because he loves baseball more than anyone i know. i knew he loved baseball when i married him; our road-trip honeymoon included visiting the ballparks in every city that we were in from the west coast to the east, but i didn't fully realize what "baseball-widowdom" would mean, (haha!) and 13 years later, i can confess i still don't get it, but i try to understand.
his coaching little league the past few years offers him joys that his corporate job doesn't give him, but:
what i wanted to tell you: was that when i saw your book at the bookstore, i walked over and read him the introduction... didn't even get past the 2nd paragraph with you name dropping your pete rose and gary carter halloween costumes, and he's giggling incredulously, saying "Come'on, you're kiddin' me, no one dressed up like gary carter" and i said "no. look, there's even pictures", so i show him. and i read on to the third paragraph, where you talk about your baseball card drafts and line-ups as a kid, and he is now laughing uncontrollably. in the bookstore. doubled over, with tears. because he knows all those names. no one he knows knows all those names. by the time we get to the last paragraph, with you dropping ALL the names of the guys who didn't make the book, he's beside himself. we haven't even gotten thru the first chapter yet, but
what i wanted to say was:
THANK YOU for the laughter. and i look forward to more of it.
sincerely,
rachel nyssen
seattle, wa
word of mouth is great, isn't it?
this is essentially a fan mail, i guess, but i don't know where else to put it.
we first heard about you last year, in this small world of ours-- (where my friend has a brother, who lives in pasadena, who i guess kind of knows you.) so we watched clips on youtube, and my husband laughed til he cried, (which is not common) because he loves baseball more than anyone i know. i knew he loved baseball when i married him; our road-trip honeymoon included visiting the ballparks in every city that we were in from the west coast to the east, but i didn't fully realize what "baseball-widowdom" would mean, (haha!) and 13 years later, i can confess i still don't get it, but i try to understand.
his coaching little league the past few years offers him joys that his corporate job doesn't give him, but: what i wanted to tell you: was that when i saw your book at the bookstore, i walked over and read him the introduction... didn't even get past the 2nd paragraph with you name dropping your pete rose and gary carter halloween costumes, and he's giggling incredulously, saying "Come'on, you're kiddin' me, no one dressed up like gary carter" and i said "no. look, there's even pictures", so i show him. and i read on to the third paragraph, where you talk about your baseball card drafts and line-ups as a kid, and he is now laughing uncontrollably. in the bookstore. doubled over, with tears. because he knows all those names. no one he knows knows all those names. by the time we get to the last paragraph, with you dropping ALL the names of the guys who didn't make the book, he's beside himself. we haven't even gotten thru the first chapter yet, but
what i wanted to say was:
THANK YOU for the laughter. and i look forward to more of it.
sincerely,
rachel nyssen
seattle, wa
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