I noticed odds were released on the 2017 World Series. The Indians were listed at 10-1 which is pretty good. I'd be willing to bet (clever, huh?) they have not had odds like that in quite some time. 

This is always a tough time for me to blog when Baseball talk is at a minimum. With that in mind I have a brief story to tell.

A couple of years ago I was doing a book talk when a gentleman came to see me after the presentation. He told me about a relative at the turn of the 20th century that worked at Hough Bakery near League Park. For those of you not familiar, Hough Bakery was an institution in the Cleveland area for several generations. 

Anyways Napoleon Lajoie liked to stop in the store and flirt with a teenage girl behind the counter.

I liked the anecdote and put it in the No Money, No Beer, No Pennants. A short time ago at a book signing a man approached me about Lajoie and the girl. It turned out she was the man's grandmother and he showed me a picture of the quite pretty girl who Lajoie took a shine to. Even though the story goes back well over a hundred years ago, I was able to meet two different people who could vouch for it. That is a writer's dream really.