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Nationals do have some fantasy gems

By Christopher Harris
ESPN.com

Friday, May 22, 2009

One summer day during my not-particularly-misspent youth, bored out of my gourd, I scanned the bookshelves in our family room for the billionth time. My mom was a purchaser for a regional bookstore chain, which meant that for years, we'd been getting advance copies of novels and nonfiction books in power-stapled brown-cardboard wraps, most of which got thrown up into a series of bookshelves, never read but never discarded. (To my parents' eternal credit, there was something verboten about trashi ...

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