Hey:
I am passing on a request from a writer I know. He's legit. If interested, drop me a line. mailto:jim@outsports.comjim@outsports.com

I talked to you on the phone a few years ago when I was writing a piece on gays in sports for the New Republic. I wrote a longer piece on the same subject a couple of years ago for Salon.com.

I am hoping you can offer some advice. I am planning to write a book about one baseball game -at Fenway in late August - and would like to talk to some Yankee fans who will be heading up for the game. It would be great to have one group with some gay fans, who could talk about baseball and why they love it and so forth. I'm not looking for controversy, just to tell the story of one game through as diverse a set of characters as possible (the book will include reporting on fans, a groundkeeper, a scoreboard operator, a hot dog vendor, and so on and so on).

Munson Man and pat125 - You are being beckoned! Why don't you follow the Yanks on the roadtrip?

Hey, if this guy can score me a ticket, I'm happy to participate!! We should get Bill W, too - he loves Jeter and the Yankees.

Hey, if my huzzie and I could get a ride up there, we'd love to go.

I'm confused about this. This author wants to go to Fenway and talk with gay YANKEE fans?!? What's wrong with us gay Sox fans? We have a more compelling story about struggling with our sexual identity while dealing with the failures of our team. We can talk about going to a night Sox game then sneaking into Ramrod without letting the Fenway faithful spot us. We can make neat metaphors with Green Monsters. What about us??

LOL, BFIDC That must explain all those guys trying to SCORE in the Fens after every game! (And before, and during...)

The end of August is a tough time for me to get away. But I also said that about Memorial Day weekend, and made it to Montreal. I'll see what I can do.