I heard Jim Bouton (of Ball Four fame) on the radio today. He was talking up his 2003 book, Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark.

The book is about his attempt to save an old wooden ballpark and attract an independent league baseball club to Pittsfield, MA--all with private dollars. But he runs afoul of the locals who want to build a new stadium with (you guessed it) taxpayer dollars. In the radio interview he called taxpayer funded stadia a "national disgrace." Ah, another book for the summer reading list.