Annual Birthday Greed List 2022
My family is big on exchanging lists for gift giving holidays. Here's mine for this year, which has substantial overlap with prior years.
Food
This "Alaskan Charcuterie" kit looks kind of fun. My sister got me Alaskan Charcuterie.
Or maybe some entertaining "of the month" club for cheese or some other thing I like. Hot Chocolate maybe? Fun edibles, basically. Well, not THAT kind of edible.
Reading Materials
I like Lois MacMaster Bujold. Books I don't have, in rough priority order:
- Penric's labors is the newest omnibus and I haven't read any of the books in it.
- The Assassins of Thasalon is a new Penric novel!
- Less urgently, as I've read them, are books 3 & 4 of the Sharing Knife and Gentlmen Jole & the Red Queen.
Baseball Reading Materials
I made a list of the some of the most famous baseball books I haven't read. Most of these are pretty old and should be available used. Don't buy any of them new.
Fred Lieb - Baseball as I have Known It.
Roger Angell - The Summer Game, any of the "A Baseball Companion Books"
Tony Kubek & Terry Pluto - Sixty-One
David Halberstam - Summer of 49
Bob Uecker & Mickey Herkowitz - Catcher in the Wry
Roger Kahn - The Boys of Summer
Bill Veeck & Ed Linn - Veeck as in Wreck
Jonathan Mahler - The Bronx is Burning
Jane Leavy - Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy Amusingly, my parents had a copy of this for me before they even saw this list!
Earl Weaver & Terry Pluto - Weaver on Strategy
John Helyar - Lords of the Realm Gift from my in-laws. It was excellent.
Jay Jaffe - Cooperstown Casebook
Bill James - Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame
Robert W Peterson - Only the Ball was White
Jules Tygiel - Baseball's Great Experiment
Mike Sowell - the Pitch That Killed
Cait Murphy - Crazy '08
Dan Epstein - Big Hair & Plastic Grass
Thomas Boswell - Why Time Begins on Opening Day
Jim Brosnan - The Long season
Satchel Paige - Maybe I'll Pitch Forever
Dan Barry - Bottom of the 33rd
Ted Williams - the Science of Hitting
Charles Einstein - Willie's Time
Jimmy Breslin - Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
Leo Durocher - Nice Guys Finish Last - Another in-law gift. Fun, but not as good as Lords of the Realm.
Danny Peary - We Played the Game
Eliot Asinof - 8 Men Out
Marcos Breton & Jose Luis Villegas - The Away Game
Robert Whiting - You Gotta Have Wa
Mike Bryan - Baseball Lives
Bill Lee - The Wrong Stuff
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Wait Till Next Year
Donald Honig - Baseball when the grass was real
Art
- A print of Orpheus by Odilon Redon suitable for framing, or maybe even framed already! This is one of my personal all time favorite paintings. I have several postcards of it, but I'd find space for something larger.
Gear
- Candlesticks for the Sabbath. Actually, M probably has opinions on this topic.
Music
Used CDs are always fine.
- William Bell: This Is Where I Live
- The Black Keys: Let's Rock, Delta Kream
- Neko Case: case/lang/viers
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
- Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas or any of the others I don't have.
- New Pornographers: Challengers, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
- TMBG: Flood
Food
This "Alaskan Charcuterie" kit looks kind of fun. My sister got me Alaskan Charcuterie.
Or maybe some entertaining "of the month" club for cheese or some other thing I like. Hot Chocolate maybe? Fun edibles, basically. Well, not THAT kind of edible.
Reading Materials
I like Lois MacMaster Bujold. Books I don't have, in rough priority order:
- Penric's labors is the newest omnibus and I haven't read any of the books in it.
- The Assassins of Thasalon is a new Penric novel!
- Less urgently, as I've read them, are books 3 & 4 of the Sharing Knife and Gentlmen Jole & the Red Queen.
Baseball Reading Materials
I made a list of the some of the most famous baseball books I haven't read. Most of these are pretty old and should be available used. Don't buy any of them new.
Fred Lieb - Baseball as I have Known It.
Roger Angell - The Summer Game, any of the "A Baseball Companion Books"
Tony Kubek & Terry Pluto - Sixty-One
David Halberstam - Summer of 49
Bob Uecker & Mickey Herkowitz - Catcher in the Wry
Roger Kahn - The Boys of Summer
Bill Veeck & Ed Linn - Veeck as in Wreck
Jonathan Mahler - The Bronx is Burning
Jane Leavy - Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy Amusingly, my parents had a copy of this for me before they even saw this list!
Earl Weaver & Terry Pluto - Weaver on Strategy
John Helyar - Lords of the Realm Gift from my in-laws. It was excellent.
Jay Jaffe - Cooperstown Casebook
Bill James - Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame
Robert W Peterson - Only the Ball was White
Jules Tygiel - Baseball's Great Experiment
Mike Sowell - the Pitch That Killed
Cait Murphy - Crazy '08
Dan Epstein - Big Hair & Plastic Grass
Thomas Boswell - Why Time Begins on Opening Day
Jim Brosnan - The Long season
Satchel Paige - Maybe I'll Pitch Forever
Dan Barry - Bottom of the 33rd
Ted Williams - the Science of Hitting
Charles Einstein - Willie's Time
Jimmy Breslin - Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
Leo Durocher - Nice Guys Finish Last - Another in-law gift. Fun, but not as good as Lords of the Realm.
Danny Peary - We Played the Game
Eliot Asinof - 8 Men Out
Marcos Breton & Jose Luis Villegas - The Away Game
Robert Whiting - You Gotta Have Wa
Mike Bryan - Baseball Lives
Bill Lee - The Wrong Stuff
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Wait Till Next Year
Donald Honig - Baseball when the grass was real
Art
- A print of Orpheus by Odilon Redon suitable for framing, or maybe even framed already! This is one of my personal all time favorite paintings. I have several postcards of it, but I'd find space for something larger.
Gear
- Candlesticks for the Sabbath. Actually, M probably has opinions on this topic.
Music
Used CDs are always fine.
- William Bell: This Is Where I Live
- The Black Keys: Let's Rock, Delta Kream
- Neko Case: case/lang/viers
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Murder Ballads
- Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas or any of the others I don't have.
- New Pornographers: Challengers, In the Morse Code of Brake Lights
- TMBG: Flood