SAFE AT HOME: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic By Alyssa Milano

This is not just a book for the most die-hard among us; this is a book for everyone-from those who buy the jerseys of their favorite players to those who have never even been to a game. It reaches out to everyone because it's about the role that baseball plays in all of our lives. Once being a fan is in your blood, it's an impossible thing to shake off; and what one takes away from Alyssa's writing is a clear sense of how the game passes from one generation to the next...

In the end, Safe at Home is not just a book about the Dodgers and the Yankees or about Los Angeles and New York. It's more than that. To be safe at home is not simply to show up at every game and support your team, it's to recognize that your team's ballpark is also a piece of your personal history. And that no matter which players are on the field, they are your connection to a tradition that began many years ago and will, I hope, continue to be passed on from generation to generation.

-from the Foreword by Joe Torre