"Andrew Forbes hits a home run with his new book Field Work: On Baseball And Making A Living"The Seaboard Review
"In the style of Roger Angell and Hanif Abdurraqib, Forbes offers a unique and nuanced view of Americas pastime."The Seattle Times
"Forbes has morphed into a version of Robert M. Pirsig, dissecting an approach to Zen and the Art of Baseballistic Maintenance, motoring and cycling through self-aware, authentic shares of all the small joys that get to the essence of spot-on observations and storytelling, making readers yearn for more."The Drill
"If Forbes hasnt hit a home run with this enjoyable survey of baseball past and present, hes certainly hit a clean triple."The Winnipeg Free Press
"What a mind Andrew Forbes has, and how lucky we are that he's given over so much of it to thinking about baseballsifting through its bottomless history for bits of gold, diving with gusto down its quirkiest rabbit holes. He's a five-tool talent, and with Field Work he stakes his claim as baseball's most indispensable folklorist. This collection of essays is the purest expression yet of his love for the game and the men who played it for a living."Devin Gordon, author of So Many Ways to Lose
"As someone who likes to think about baseball from all manner of different angles, I found Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living to be a compelling and energizing read. Not only does Andrew Forbes connect the present game to the history of labour relations, he reminds us that it all starts with grassroots baseball and regular fans, and that stats and balance sheets can only ever tell us part of the story."Ben Nicholson-Smith, Sportsnet
"Canadas resident baseball philosopher has done it again, offering a typically charming collection of quirky essays tying Americas pastime to universal facets of life, love andas the title suggestswork. To read this Andrew Forbes book is to lose oneself in a world of baseball mysticism grounded in the decidedly un-mystic world of hard (and sometimes not-so-hard) labor. Savor it in pieces or gobble it down all at once; either way, youll be glad you did."Jason Turbow, author of They Bled Blue
