George Bowering is fond of baseball, and he likes the alphabet. Having written a few baseball books and a few alphabet books over the years, he decided to write a baseball alphabet book. Diamond Alphabet is made up of 130 between-innings takes, five for each letter. You probably expected Mays, but were you ready for Uzbekistan ? Tall tales, memories, facts and opinions are interwoven in this delightful collection of short takes on the gentleman’s game, written only as a poet can.