More on Kenny Mayne’s new book

June 2, 2008

[Kenny Mayne Book and bobblehead] If you read the title of this post out loud, it sounds like you’re saying ‘Moron Kenny Mayne’s new book’, and Kenny Mayne is not a moron. In fact, I think he’s very clever, and so is his book.

I probably shouldn’t have used that as a title, but I did because you probably aren’t reading this article out loud.

I wrote about Kenny Mayne’s new book a couple of weeks ago, and I read a little more of it and I still liked it, so I wanted to write more about it because it’s a good book.

In Mayne’s third ‘wiffle ball’ chapter, as he calls it, he writes about Rick Messina’s superior wiffleball stadium in southern California. Mayne didn’t remember the name, but I do. It’s called Strawberry Field.

The owner of Strawberry Field, Rick Messina, is the manager for Tim Allen and Drew Carey, so he’s rich. His back yard is a fancy wiffleball stadium. When his neighbor’s house went up for sale a few years ago, he bought that too in order to expand his stadium, and to ensure new neighbors wouldn’t try to put a stop to his wiffleball league.

Ensure is probably the fanciest word in this post so far and it’s only five or six letters.

Strawberry Field has announcers, televisions, a scoreboard, lights, seats, and beer.

I won’t write much more about it, because if I did there wouldn’t be much left for you to read in Kenny Mayne’s new book, and then you wouldn’t buy it, but you should buy it because it’s a good book.

Kenny Mayne (or anyone) should write a book all about wiffleball. I did a search for wiffleball (and ‘wiffle ball’) on the computer at Borders and there were no matches. I would probably buy that book too.

Here’s a relevant fact about Kenny Mayne: In 2001, I won a Kenny Mayne bobblehead in an ESPN.com contest (see photo above). It doesn’t look anything like Kenny Mayne. I wouldn’t have known who it was if his name wasn’t on it. You probably didn’t know who it was until this paragraph. But the picture on the cover of his book looks like Kenny Mayne because it’s actually a photograph of him.