Michael Clare

I'm good.

I'm good, Blake.

How are you doing?

Yeah, yeah, it feels unreal.

The first time somebody, we had an event, and the first time somebody was like, hi, here's a book, can you put your signature in it?

I was like, are you sure about that?

I don't know if, it might be worse now if you try to never resell it.

So, no, it's incredible to be out there.

The response has been overwhelming.

I've gotten to meet some wonderful people, talk to great people.

It's been a lot of fun.

That's what's been so cool because I've been able to meet some really amazing people both in the baseball world and not.

And at that Jay Jaffe event, my dad came out and he sold two books to a guy who was just walking by the store that night and said, what's going on in there?

But, you know, there's so many weird connections that happen.

Like at that book event, Thomas Gilbert came out.

He has a new book on the pitcher James Creighton, great story, fantastic.

arguably the first pitcher to ever throw a curveball.

But Thomas Gilbert has actually been having a Czech player sleep on his couch since the mid-1980s and helped get baseball equipment out to the Czech Republic when it was still the Czechoslovakia.

So the world seems so big, but doing this little tour has really shown just how small it can be.

Well, it's twofold.