I’m happy to say that my friend Stephanie Liscio and I have taken over the Cleveland Indians blog for the ESPN SweetSpot blog network. Our blog is called ItsPronouncedLajaway.com (in honor of legendary Cleveland player Nap Lajoie). We’ll be writing throughout the season on what’s going on with our favorite baseball team.

I fell in love with the Indians as a nine-year-old in 1977 and never looked back. My brother and I would play baseball or whiffle ball all day with the kids who lived behind us and then watch the Indians every night on TV. We didn’t get to go to many games as kids. We had a large family, not a lot of disposable income, and parents who weren’t all that interested in baseball, so feeding the baseball hunger was up to us. We watched it, read about it in the paper, collected our baseball cards, and dreamed about the Indians. I wanted to be the first woman to play in the major leagues. That dream was quelled when I was about 11 when I realized that I wasn’t a good enough ball player to be The One. I’m shopping a novel called Heart, Brains, and Balls to agents and small presses right now. It’s about The One, although an unlikely one. We’ll see what happens with that. In the meantime, I’ll still be writing here, on the baseball blog, and everywhere. Cheers.