• RELEVANT: Contributes to the most pressing conversations in baseball today, coveringtopics like sabermetrics, the status of minor league baseball, and the home-run boom.
• NOSTALGIC: Revisits some of the most popular players of the 1990s/2000s (like Ichiro Suzuki and Ken Griffey, Jr.) who are still favourites among Gen-X and Millennial fans.
• TIMELY NON-BASEBALL TOPICS: Discusses baseball’s relevance to timely non-sports issues like COVID-19 and YouTube, and evergreen topics like family, aging, and how to live a good life.
• APPEALS TO NON-BASEBALL FANS: Just like THE UTILITY OF BOREDOM, this book is accessible and will appeal to people who don’t identify as baseball or sports fans.
  

Andrew Forbes is the author of the story collections Lands and Forests (Invisible Publishing, 2019) and What You Need (2015), which was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and named a finalist for the Trillium Book Prize. He is also the author of The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays (2016). Forbes lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

• Top cities in which Andrew has connections for events, media, etc.: Victoria, Calgary, Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal
• Author website: andrewgforbes.com
• Author postal code: K9J 7V4
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"Andrew Forbes writes so well about everything, with such a keen eye for detail and the texture of life, that you can sometimes forget that the occasion for these essays is baseball. And yet, there he always is, like a nimble infielder, with a fresh insight or deft turn on the game. There is no other writer working now whose baseball writing I admire more. This companion to The Utility of Boredom is a true gift."—Mark Kingwell, author of Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters

“Andrew Forbes’s love of baseball is the most honest and difficult kind: clear-eyed, thoughtful, willing to see the flaws along with the beauty. This book is a beauty. Through the lens of Ichiro Suzuki’s magnificent career, Forbes examines our potential and our prejudices, helping us see the times that make the game and the game that makes the times.”—Scott O’Connor, author of Zero Zone and Untouchable

"You don't have to love (or even like) baseball to love The Only Way is the Steady Way. Forbes' writing about baseball, something he's loved his entire life, transcends statistics, standings, highlight reels, and hype, and captures soul—not the soul of the game, but the soul of fandom. If you do love baseball, or have had any fond feelings about the game at some point in your life, you will find your feelings put into writing in the pages of this book. Baseball may not save the world, but this book will remind you that it does indeed matter."—Brendan Leonard, author of The Art of Getting Lost