Andrew Forbes

Andrew Forbes is the author of three collections of baseball writing—The Utility of Boredom (2016), The Only Way Is the Steady Way (2021), and Field Work (2025)—as well as two collections of short fiction, the novella McCurdle’s Arm, and a novel, The Diapause. He is an active member of the Society for American Baseball Research, having participated in several investigative projects. He has written for publications including the Toronto Star, Canadian Notes and Queries, and Maisonneuve Magazine, and his work has been nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Trillium Book Award. Originally from Ottawa, Forbes has lived in Atlantic Canada and rural Eastern Ontario, and now resides in Peterborough, Ontario. For more information, visit andrewgforbes.com.

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Andrew Forbes’ blog


Eephus’s The 7 Questions with Andrew Forbes

A Baseball Conversation between Andrew Forbes and Ben Nicholson-Smith

Andrew Forbes is Open Book’s May 2016 Writer in Residence

Forbes blogs the Toronto Blue Jays 2015 post-season