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That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.

Before we get started with today's episode, just a quick note that there will be no new episode next week as we commemorate Memorial Day here in the United States.

All right, let's get on to today's episode.

Greg Larson is an author, editor,

and stand-up comedian. He spent two years as a clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen Ironbirds.

Today he's here to talk about clubby, a minor league baseball memoir. I'd like to thank Scott

Verkovich for his help in putting this episode together.

And as always, thanks to Jay Daniel, who does our social media graphics.

Let's get started.

Hi, Greg, welcome to baseball by the book.

Thanks for having me, Justin.

Your book is a memoir of your two seasons as a clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen Ironbirds, who at the time you are working for them were the short season single A affiliate of the Orioles. And this is a team

that's owned by Cal Ripkin, for people who aren't aware of that. It's just, you understand exactly

what we're talking about here. You were a club attendant, like I said, or a clubby, as the title of the book

would let people know. For those who don't know or maybe don't have a great understanding of it,

what exactly is the job description of a clubby? I think the job description would probably be

about the length of this book, but in short, a clubby basically takes care of anything that

needs to be taken care of in the clubhouse

so that the players can focus on what happens on the field.

So it's everything from I feed the team, I do their laundry, I clean up, I'm janitorial

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