Reading the diary of a Scotsman in the US army during the US-Mexican War. Cool stuff. It was published by Lakeside Classics. Only learned about this series, which does a lot of US history, primary source, material, last year after visiting a used book store. Wish I knew about these in grad school. They would have helped considerably.

Just finished a baseball book by Steve Stone which talked about all the positions in the game and the state of the sport. Was pretty interesting, but you can tell about half way through he lost interest and was just trying to meet deadlines to get it published.

Just started a new one. It's a biography of Charles Comiskey, who started the Chicago White Sox. It's trying to rehab his image as the excuse for why his players cheated in the 1919 World Series. So far it's real interesting - just the foreword was able to disprove all the anti-Comiskey arguments, using salary figures and stats - but the book proper is a bit too laudatory, overcompensating for his negative reputation. I thought all those cheapskate stories about Comiskey were true, so this book is a bit mind-blowing.