When I caught up with former Penn and Phillies outfielder Doug Glanville earlier this year, he talked about the book he was writing:

Doug Glanville: As a result of the column, I was able to get a book deal with Time Books. I'm currently working on that, and I'm hoping to have that come out in May 2010. Really my focal point now has been to try to sort of establish almost an ambassadorship to the game.

Daily Pennsylvanian: What's the book about?

DG: It's not really about me, it's about players and life in baseball. And I'm hoping people connect to it because they see how
common it is and, in a certain sense, how similar it is to some of the things they go through. So I hope in the book to use the same essay-type concepts, tying in various stories, but use the framework of a season.

Well, he's on schedule: Amazon.com is pegging a May 11, 2010, release date for "The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer's Inside View. And this morning, Peter Gammons tweeted that it will be "the best baseball book you read this year." There are no shortages of baseball books out there, so that's some pretty high praise.

Glanville will also be at the Kelly Writers House for two hours on Mar. 3.

For those of you looking for a break from the NCAA tournament monotony, one of my colleagues got a great interview with Penn engineering alum and nine-year MLB player Doug Glanville.

The Phillies fans out there probably remember his two stints with the team, while Cubs fans undoubtedly recall his game-winning triple in the 11th inning of Game 3 of the 2003 NLCS.

The full transcript couldn't fit into the paper, so make sure to read the whole thing online because it's a very interesting read.