74 Days to Opening Day

Opening Day 2008 for the Timber Rattlers is April 3. That is 74 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 Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This is book two in the DragonLance Chronicles.

The third day, they continued their journey, flying into the sunrise. They had lost the dragons, apparently, although Tika, keeping watch behind, thought she could see black dots upon the horizon. And that afternoon, as the sun was sinking behind them, they neared the river known as Thon-Thalas – Lord’s River – which divided the outside world from Silvanesti.

All his life, Tanis had heard of the wonder and beauty of the ancient Elven Home, though the elves of Qualinesti spoke of it without regret. They did not miss the lost wonders of Silvanesti, for the wonders themselves became the differences that had developed between the elven kin.

Put today’s excerpt in a baseball context.