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The Commissioner

My Diamond Mind baseball experience dates back to 1990 when my dad purchased a copy of Pursue the Pennant and the 1989 season disk. I also had my dad's 1960s version of the Strat-O-Matic Baseball board game with card sets from 1966 and 1967, an updated all-time greatest players card set, and some season sets from the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the early 2000s, I founded my first DMB sim league, Vintage Baseball Guild, which I operated for a couple of years until a return to grad school and having children consumed my spare time. I turned over the VBG to one of the founding owners in that league which is still in operation today. Two decades later I have returned to the DMB sim community, founding the Wayback Baseball Syndicate, which I hope to continue for as many seasons as possible... PLAY BALL!

Reading List

  1. Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes by William T. Vollmann
    ▪ Volume 1: The Ice-Shirt (1990)
    ▪ Volume 2: Fathers and Crows: A Book of North American Landscapes (1992)
    ▪ Volume 3: Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (2001)
    ▪ Volume 4: The Poison Shirt (unpublished)
    ▪ Volume 5: The Dying Grass (2015)
    ▪ Volume 6: The Rifles (1994)
    ▪ Volume 7: The Cloud-Shirt (unpublished)
  2. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (1985) by Cormac McCarthy
  3. Walden or, Life in the Woods (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
  4. Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo
  5. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
    ▪ Justine (1957)
    ▪ Balthazar (1958)
    ▪ Mountolive (1958)
    ▪ Clea (1960)
  6. Rising Up And Rising Down (7 Volumes) (2003) by William T. Vollmann
  7. The American Trilogy by Philip Roth
    ▪ American Pastoral (1997)
    ▪ I Married a Communist (1998)
    ▪ The Human Stain (2000)
  8. U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos
    ▪ The 42nd Parallel (1930)
    ▪ Nineteen Nineteen (1932)
    ▪ The Big Money (1936)
  9. Underworld USA Trilogy by James Ellroy
    ▪ American Tabloid (1995)
    ▪ The Cold Six Thousand (2001)
    ▪ Blood's a Rover (2009)
  10. The Bascombe Novels by Richard Ford
    ▪ The Sportswriter (1986)
    ▪ Independence Day (1995)
    ▪ The Lay of the Land (2006)
    ▪ Let Me Be Frank With You (2014)
  11. From Here to Eternity (1951) by James Jones
  12. Gilead Quartet by Marilynne Robinson
    ▪ Gilead (2004)
    ▪ Home (2008)
    ▪ Lila (2014)
    ▪ Jack (2020)
  13. Europe Central (2005) by William T. Vollmann
  14. Blonde (2000) by Joyce Carol Oates
  15. The Rings of Saturn (1995) by W.G. Sebald
  16. Checkerboard Trilogy by William Eastlake
    ▪ Go in Beauty (1956)
    ▪ The Bronc People: A Classic Novel of the American Southwest (1958)
    ▪ Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses (1963)
  17. Double Indemnity (1936) by James M. Cain
  18. Freedom (2010) by Jonathan Franzen
  19. American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis
  20. Mason & Dixon (1997) by Thomas Pynchon
  21. Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman
  22. On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
  23. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
  24. The Magus (1965) by John Fowles
  25. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera
  26. Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) by George Saunders
  27. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon
  28. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (1979) by Italo Calvino
  29. The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman
  30. The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) by Alexandre Dumas
  31. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
    ▪ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
    ▪ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
    ▪ Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
    ▪ So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
    ▪ Mostly Harmless (1992)
  32. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole
  33. Going After Cacciato (1978) by Tim O'Brien
  34. Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
  35. Tetralogy of Elements by Rikki Ducornet
    ▪ The Stain (1984)
    ▪ Entering Fire (1986)
    ▪ The Fountains of Neptune (1989)
    ▪ The Jade Cabinet (1993)
  36. The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
  37. Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
  38. The Overstory (2018) by Richard Powers
  39. The Maniac (2023) by Benjamín Labatut
  40. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012) by Ben Fountain
  41. Tales (1935) by H.P. Lovecraft
  42. A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) by John Irving
  43. Moonglow (2016) by Michael Chabon
  44. The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
  45. A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess
  46. Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ishmael Reed
  47. An Albany Trio by William Kennedy
    ▪ Ironweed (1983)
    ▪ Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978)
    ▪ Legs (1975)
  48. Homer & Langley (2009) by E.L. Doctorow
  49. Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides
  50. Trainspotting (1993) by Irvine Welsh
  51. A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway
  52. The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
  53. The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
  54. The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov
  55. A Sport and a Pastime (1967) by James Salter


    56. Playground (2024) by Richard Powers The Enchanters (2023)by James Ellroy Widespread Panic (2021) by James Ellroy
    Second L.A. Quartet by James Ellroy
    ▪ Perfidia (2014)
    ▪ This Storm (2019)

    ▪ Barkskins (2016) by Annie Proulx


    Roger Rabbit Series by Gary K. Wolf
    ▪ Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981)
    ▪ Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? (1991)
    ▪ Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? (2013)

    ▪ I Hotel (2010) by Karen Tei Yamashita

    ▪ Riding Toward Everywhere (2008) by William T. Vollmann
    ▪ The Echo Maker (2006) by Richard Powers
    ▪ No Country for Old Men (2005) by Cormac McCarthy
    ▪ The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (2005) by Bill Watterson
    ▪ Tree of Smoke (2004) by Denis Johnson
    ▪ Any Human Heart (2002) by William Boyd
    ▪ Kafka on the Shore (2002) by Haruki Murakami


    ▪ City of God (2000) by E.L. Doctorow
    ▪ Me and My Likker (1999) by Popcorn Sutton

    The Civil War Trilogy by Jeff & Michael Shaara
    ▪ Gods and Generals (1996)
    ▪ The Killer Angels (1974)
    ▪ The Last Full Measure (1998)

    ▪ The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy
    ▪ The Atlas (1996) by William T. Vollmann
    ▪ Hogg (1994) by Samuel R. Delany


    L.A. Quartet by James Ellroy
    ▪ The Black Dahlia (1987)
    ▪ The Big Nowhere (1988)
    ▪ L.A. Confidential (1990)
    ▪ White Jazz (1992)

    ▪ Skinny Legs and All (1990) by Tom Robbins

    The Avignon Quintet by Lawrence Durrell
    ▪ Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness (1974)
    ▪ Livia or Buried Alive (1978)
    ▪ Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982)
    ▪ Sebastian or Ruling Passions (1983)
    ▪ Quinx or The Ripper's Tale (1985)
    ▪ Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) by Patrick Süskind
    ▪ Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1981) by Cameron Crowe
    ▪ Easy Travel to Other Planets (1981) by Ted Mooney
    ▪ Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie. (1981) by Luigi Serafini
    ▪ Darconville's Cat (1981) by Alexander Theroux
    ▪ Sophie’s Choice (1979) by William Styron
    ▪ The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving
    ▪ Requiem for a Dream (1978) by Hubert Selby Jr.
    ▪ Song of Solomon (1977) by Toni Morrison
    ▪ The Big Orange Splot (1977) by Daniel Pinkwater
    ▪ The Franchiser (1976) by Stanley Elkin
    ▪ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (1974) by Robert M. Pirsig
    ▪ Post Office (1971) by Charles Bukowski
    ▪ Angle of Repose (1971) by Wallace Stegner
    ▪ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke
    ▪ Tlooth (1966) by Harry Mathews
    ▪ The Last Picture Show (1966) by Larry McMurtry
    ▪ Cool Hand Luke (1965) by Donn Pearce
    ▪ Stoner (1965) by John Williams
    ▪ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
    ▪ Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1961) by John Steinbeck
    ▪ To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee
    The Emigrants Series by Vilhelm Moberg
    ▪ The Emigrants (1949)
    ▪ Unto a Good Land (1952)
    ▪ The Settlers (1956)
    ▪ The Last Letter Home (1959)
    ▪ The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass
    Philip Marlowe Series by Raymond Chandler
    ▪ The Big Sleep (1939)
    ▪ Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
    ▪ The High Window (1942)
    ▪ The Lady in the Lake (1943)
    ▪ The Little Sister (1949)
    ▪ The Long Goodbye (1953)
    ▪ Playback (1958)
    ▪ Trouble Is My Business (1950)
    ▪ Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (1958) by Truman Capote
    ▪ Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
    ▪ Howl and Other Poems (1956) by Allen Ginsberg
    ▪ Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
    ▪ Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison
    ▪ Wise Blood (1952) by Flannery O'Connor
    ▪ The Killer Inside Me (1952) by Jim Thompson
    ▪ 1984 (1949) by George Orwell
    ▪ The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus
    ▪ All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
    ▪ World Series (1941) by John R. Tunis
    ▪ For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
    ▪ The Kid from Tomkinsville (1940) by John R. Tunis
    ▪ The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
    ▪ The Thin Man (1934) by Dashiell Hammett
    ▪ The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett
    ▪ Point Counter Point (1928) by Aldous Huxley
    ▪ Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
    ▪ Cane (1923) by Jean Toomer
    ▪ Treasure Island (1882) by Robert Louis Stevenson
    ▪ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll
    ▪ Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    ▪ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
    ▪ Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens

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Album List

  1. Where You Been by Dinosaur Jr.
  2. In Utero by Nirvana
  3. OK Computer by Radiohead
  4. Different Class by Pulp
  5. Abbey Road by The Beatles
  6. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
  7. Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin
  8. London Calling by The Clash
  9. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
  10. The Chronic by Dr. Dre
  11. Blue by Joni Mitchell
  12. Purple Rain by Prince & The Revolution
  13. Mothership Connection by Parliament
  14. Straight to Hell by Hank Williams III
  15. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis/li>
  16. Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
  17. Disintegration by The Cure
  18. The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground & Nico
  19. Dummy by Portishead
  20. Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.
  21. The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails
  22. Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails
  23. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John
  24. Madman Across the Water by Elton John
  25. Harvest by Neil Young
  26. Harvest Moon by Neil Young
  27. Unplugged by Neil Young
  28. Back in Black by AC/DC
  29. Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine
  30. Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson
  31. To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
  32. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols by The Sex Pistols
  33. I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by Bright Eyes
  34. Better Oblivion Community Center by Better Oblivion Community Center
  35. Nevermind by Nirvana
  36. Ænima by Tool
  37. Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
  38. Goo by Sonic Youth
  39. Icky Thump by The White Stripes
  40. Van Lear Rose by Loretta Lynn
  41. Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
  42. Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
  43. Okonokos by My Morning Jacket
  44. Nevermind by Nirvana
  45. Welfare Jazz by Viagra Boys
  46. Screen Violence by CHVRCHES
  47. Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
  48. Them Crooked Vultures by Them Crooked Vultures
  49. Aqualung by Jethro Tull
  50. The Beatles (the White Album) by The Beatles
  51. Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons
  52. Lamentations by American Aquarium
  53. The Fear of Standing Still by American Aquarium
  54. All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend by Aurora
  55. Licensed to Ill by Beastie Boys
  56. Guero by Beck
  57. Desire by Bob Dylan
  58. Blood On The Tracks by Bob Dylan
  59. Tapestry by Carol King
  60. Welcome to Hard Times by Charley Crockett
  61. Guppy by Charly Bliss
  62. Colter Wall by Colter Wall
  63. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney Barnett
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