Happy Friday, UNP blog readers. Two items of note today:

First of all, the University of Nebraska Press Hurt Book Sale is tonight from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Swing by our warehouse (on R Street between 8th and 9th streets, in the Lincoln Haymarket) for cheap, cheap books ($2 paperbacks and $4 hardcovers) on the following topics: history and literature of the American West, Indigenous studies, translated literature, literary fiction, classic works by Nebraska authors including Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, Ted Kooser, Bill Kloefkorn and others, sports history (particularly baseball) and much more. More information on this sale is available on our Web site.

Secondly, UNP author Robert Fitts (who also posted a guest blog earlier this week) was interviewed on CNN yesterday. In the interview, which is posted online, Fitts discusses Japanese baseball, Hideki Matsui, Babe Ruth, and how the three are related (among other topics). Fitts is the author of Wally Yonamine, and has another book, Banzai Babe Ruth, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press.