If I may be permitted one off-topic post on baseball each spring training, I’ll call the attention of D.C.-area readers to a lunch event this Friday, March 20, featuring Talmage Boston and his new book Baseball and the Baby Boomer: A History, Commentary and Memoir. The event is at the University Club. (For more information, contact Norbert Kupinski at [email protected].)

There is a genuine, if tenuous, Bench Mench memos link, as Talmage, in addition to being a baseball historian, is a lawyer and a leader of the State Bar of Texas, and in that last capacity kindly invited me to take part in a debate on judicial activism at the State Bar’s annual meeting in 2006. Plus, Talmage tells me that a former U.S. Attorney General will be at the event. (Hint: It’s not Janet Reno.)