"TAMPA, Fla. – Matt DeSalvo often walks around with his left hand covered in writing, which would be understandable if he were a sneaky 12-year-old trying to cheat on his geography test. But he’s a 26-year-old right-hander trying to make the Yankees.
"It’s just ideas, anything really," DeSalvo said, looking over the notes. "When I’m in the car in traffic, I write notes on my hand."
Once he returns home, DeSalvo transfers his musings to one of the dozens of Moleskine notebooks he keeps.
"I read a lot, and sometimes things come into my head and I write them down," DeSalvo said. "It’s just a habit I have."
DeSalvo’s current reading list includes the English translation of "The Book of Five Rings." That’s a 362-year-old treatise on military strategy and sword fighting. He is also deep into "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus.
Sisyphus was the mythological Greek who was cursed to roll a boulder up the peak of a mountain only to have it roll down again for all eternity. DeSalvo can relate. After three seasons of steadily moving up the mountain, the boulder crushed him last season…"
By Peter Abraham
The Journal News
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[Via Chris Miesenzahl]
