It's no secret that Alyssa Milano is in love with baseball -- and guys who play it. In her new book "Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic" Milano reveals what baseball means to her and she'll be in New York next week to talk about it.
Beginning Monday, March 30, Milano will be giving readings and signing copies of her book at various locations including The BookMark Shoppe in Bay Ridge and Borders Wall Street. The signings are open to the public and give fans the chance to meet the TV actress.
Brooklyn-born Milano is most known for her roles on "Who's the Boss?" and "Charmed." She's also a notorious baseball Annie, having been romantically involved with players Barry Zito, Brad Penny, and Carl Pavano. Her flings are just one part of her love for the game.
"What brings me bliss is a simple sound: the dulcet voice of Vin Scully, calling a Dodgers game," Milano wrote in her book. "Other women dream of papaya facials and mango pedicures. Give me a hot dog, a pitchers' duel, and a late-inning suicide squeeze, and I melt like hot pine tar."
The book recalls baseball's history with dreamy references to "the days when kids stuck baseball cards in the spokes of their bicycles and rode the streets of Brooklyn."
She also intertwines her child-star history with a bleacher-fan perspective.
"We're not red state or blue state, black or white, Christian or Jew, Hindu or Muslim," she wrote. "We're just fans, bound by our love for the game."
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Her idealistic take on the steroid-stricken game begins with a foreword by Joe Torre who, like Milano, is "a former Brooklynite." Although he didn't meet Milano until 2008, Torre wrote, "my introduction didn't take long. She's kind of hard to miss for most of us in the dugout."
