aPeople ask me what I do in winter when thereas no baseball. Iall tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.aaRogers Hornsby In the days before travel was simple, before directions were more than a mouse-click away, and depression ran rampant, Hornsby spoke for every baseball fan with this famous quote. Fortunately, the world has changed. After hundreds of hours of preparation prior to each baseball season, the author travels across the country on various jaunts, and during the 2006 season he decided to share the majesty of the game and its players along with its accompanying sights, sounds, fans, ballparks, promotions and the surrounding world. Infusing baseball with incidents from the authoras past, pop culture, humor and social commentary, Abneras Curse allows readers to live vicariously through a nomadic baseball fan and his sojourns to ballparks from Portland, Maine, to Phoenix, Arizona.