I guess I think my favorite book is the most recent one, and I try to get better with each book. Because it's the only kind of entertainment where nobody knows the outcome in advance. When we watch TV or go to the movies, we can usually figure out what's going to happen long before it does - who will live, who will die, who will win, and who will lose. I'm attracted to the drama of that. Football, hockey, soccer, basketball - they all have one team trying to march down a field and score a goal on the other team.
Baseball is different, more strategic, with an infinite number of possibilities at any point.
It reminds me of chess. And it's easy to write about baseball because there's plenty of time when the players are standing around trying to figure out what to do next. I haven't gotten around to those sports yet. After I wrote Baseball's Greatest Games, I suggested to my editor that we do Football's Greatest Games. It is a soccer book called The Million Dollar Kick .