’Tis the season to fear getting someone something they couldn’t give a hoot about.
So, here’s a failsafe suggestion, assuming your recipient has a yen for baseball.
Books. Good baseball books.
Four recommendations for consideration:
1. “Joy in Tigertown: A Determined Team, a Resilient City, and our Magical Run to the 1968 World Series,” by Mickey Lolich and Tom Gage.
Lolich remains, in 100-plus years of Tigers history, one of those Founding Father types. His longevity and excellence, his ability to perform when times and tension were at a peak, made him one of the most extraordinary figures in Detroit baseball’s rich weave of people and achievements.