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Want to know why baseball is still popular? Says Canadian Andrew Forbes [2], the game's quiet rhythm has a therapeutic effect on the modern, distracted mind.
"The game is almost over", confirms the National Post [3] reviewer on her first trip to the Rogers Centre, "when I realize I haven’t looked at my phone once."
The Utility of Boredom [1] is a collection of essays about baseball: 25 pieces spread across a mere 150 pages, and each one is tender and insightful.
For the National Post [3] review.
For more about baseball [4].
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[3] http://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/andrew-forbes-book-review-every-single-player-out-there-has-a-story-how-a-love-for-baseball-values-the-utility-of-boredom
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