Geddy Lee was recently interviewed for a piece in the Toronto Star to discuss baseball, the Toronto Blue Jays and his new baseball book 72 Stories. Ged is an avid baseball fan and has been closely following the Jays' playoff run - often from his seats behind home plate at the Rogers Centre. His latest book 72 Stories from the Collection of Geddy Lee released last month and tells the stories behind much of the baseball memorabilia Lee has in his collection:

I started this book a couple of years ago when I had made the decision - the difficult decision - to sell many things from my collection. So before letting those things leave my house, a friend of mine said, 'You know, you should write some of your favourite stories from these items.' Because I'm always telling stories about this item or that item as a kind of keepsake. So I originally did it as a memory book. I started just writing down items I had and it totaled up to 72 of my favorite stories. So it was just a random number. They were the most interesting stories to me. And I originally was just going to privately publish it on our website, for fun. And our publisher, HarperCollins, who have published both my other books, got sent a copy and they just loved it. And they said, 'Let us release this wider. I think baseball fans would really dig it.'"]]

Ged also talks about how the Jays' have captivated the city of Toronto and also why he loves baseball so much:

First of all, there's so much time to mull it over. It's a slow game. It's a slow burn. And there's something in almost every ball game that I have never seen before. Like, for example, that that playoff game the other day where Josh Naylor (Seattle Mariners) jumped into the air, flipped around and took that double play ball off his helmet. I've never seen that before! There's nuances that happen in every game that make it different from all the others. So I became addicted to the grace of a double play, the glide of someone sliding into second base, the sheer power of sitting close to the catcher and feeling that 95 mile an hour fastball barely grazing a batter's body. And that's ferocity. The game has a combination of grace and ferocity. And at times it is simply balletic. And I just can't think of another sport that encumbers all of that.

You can read the entire interview online here.