1/29/2008

65 Days to Opening Day

Opening Day 2008 for the Timber Rattlers is April 3. That is 65 days from today. This off-season, the countdown will be based on books. Each day between now and Opening Day 2008, I will pick a random book out of my library and excerpt a passage off the page number corresponding with the number of days remaining to the first pitch of the new season. I will try not to repeat a book during the countdown.

Today’s book is A Taste for Death by P.D. James. This is an Adam Dalgliesh novel. James is describing police pathologist Miles Kynaston in the passage below.

He never wasted time. Even as he greeted Dalgliesh he was taking off his jacket and drawing his fine latex gloves over his stubby-fingered hands which looked unnaturally white, almost bloodless. He was tall and solidly built, giving an impression of shambling clumsiness until one saw him working in a confined space, when he would seem physically to contract and become compact, even graceful, moving about the body with the lightness and precision of a cat. His face was fleshy, the dark hair receding from a high speckled forehead, the long upper lip as precisely curved as an arrowhead, and the full, heavily lidded eyes dark and very bright, giving his face a look of sardonic, humorous intelligence.

Put today’s excerpt in a baseball context.

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