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  • Interview with Andrew Forbes, author of Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living banner. Background image from cover of illustrated baseball players throwing a ball in old timey uniform against a blue background. Solid dark red section to centre right with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Image of author to centre left, man with styled red hair and light beard, sitting pensively with hands clasped and wearing a denim jacket.
    Interview with Andrew Forbes, author of Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living banner. Background image from cover of illustrated baseball players throwing a ball in old timey uniform against a blue background. Solid dark red section to centre right with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Image of author to centre left, man with styled red hair and light beard, sitting pensively with hands clasped and wearing a denim jacket.
    April 25, 2025

    Acclaimed Author Andrew Forbes Explores the Many Interesting Lives that are Made Around Baseball in Field Work

    The work of Andrew Forbes has featured on Open Book a number of times in recents years, and the versatility of the author's work is plain to see. From novels to novellas to short fiction, he has won ...

  • Excerpt from McCurdle's Arm by Andrew Forbes banner. Background image of old-timey baseball game in illustration with bright colours. Solid dark red area to centre-right with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Further right an image of the author, stylish red-haired man with jean-jacket on and sitting on old stone steps. Thick hair swept to one side and neat beard. Author clasps hands and rests forearms on knees and he looks out pensively.
    Excerpt from McCurdle's Arm by Andrew Forbes banner. Background image of old-timey baseball game in illustration with bright colours. Solid dark red area to centre-right with text and Open Book logo overlaid. Further right an image of the author, stylish red-haired man with jean-jacket on and sitting on old stone steps. Thick hair swept to one side and neat beard. Author clasps hands and rests forearms on knees and he looks out pensively.
    July 19, 2024

    Read an Excerpt From McCurdle's Arm, the New Novella From Baseball-Lit Slugger Andrew Forbes

    Acclaimed author Andrew Forbes has worked in a variety of forms, being lauded already for his short fiction, he's also written some of the most definitive non-fiction tomes in Baseball Literature, always ...

  • Virtual launch for The Only Way is the Steady Way
    Virtual launch for The Only Way is the Steady Way
    April 25, 2021 @ 3:00pm - 4:00pm - Online - https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/the-only-way-is-the-steady-way/

    Virtual launch for The Only Way is the Steady Way

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    Book Launch: The Only Way is the Steady Way

    Sunday ...

  • Book Therapy: 100 Miles of Baseball
    Book Therapy: 100 Miles of Baseball
    January 19, 2021

    Book Therapy: 100 Miles of Baseball

    “Baseball is about connecting—with people we’ve just met, people we’ll never meet again, people we know, people we love and miss.”—Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs, 100 Miles of Baseball In ...

  • Geometry Made Into Poetry: A conversation with Mark Kingwell about the game of baseball
    Geometry Made Into Poetry: A conversation with Mark Kingwell about the game of baseball
    March 01, 2017

    Geometry Made Into Poetry: A conversation with Mark Kingwell about the game of baseball

    For baseball devotees, whether they be of the emotional or analytical type, this time of year is one of hope, renewal, and endless possibility. Over the past few weeks, baseball players from across the ...

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