One of the most painful things about undertaking this project - aside from not being confident in my own writing ability - is the attempt to speak for people with whose voice I am not familiar. I've found that trying to borrow or imitate another person's voice takes a lot of time and some practice. Maybe I ought to know what Kay sounds like, how he speaks, the expressions he likes to use, for the sake of the story. There are, however, problems with that. One is that I would be required to listen...

I'm not normally one to play with a historical or real-life MLB universe. I greatly prefer a custom-built baseball world, in which I can correct all of the "flaws" I see in MLB as a business. However, I discovered that when I play out the future with the real MLB history as its foundation, sometimes the stories within become even grander. The deeper one goes into the game, the more one sees, and the more that particular universe ties into the real world. One begins to ask one's self,...