Speaking of Liaden, Sharon Lee was recently announced as the 2025 Heinlein Award winner and will be at Balticon end of May (https://www.balticon.org/goh/sharon-lee).

Sheryl and I are baseball fans though not as devoted as your husband. Made it to a spring training game once when a visit to my dad and stepmom in southern Florida happened to coincide. Haven't been to much in the way of regular season games lately except one Cubs game I went to with Bill Roper while I was in the Chicago area on business travel.