Alyssa Milano does all Dodger fans proud.

April 1 is usually a slow news day. The divide between super serious journalists and the rest of the internet that can’t get over April Fool’s Day usually means anyone with really groundbreaking content waits a day to post it. So to the middle ground we go.

Benjamin Hoffman at the NY Times blog Bats tossed a few questions at baseball ambassador Alyssa Milano, covering her new book “Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic,” as well as her campaign to get the color pink off women’s athletic wear.

Hoffman does hit her with a bit of a gotcha, regarding a typo in the book where she flubs Jackie Robinson’s position on the Dodgers, but she handles it pretty well:

“Branch Rickey discovered Robinson when he was playing shortstop for the Monarchs. Jackie played first base his rookie year and then moved to second for the rest of his career. Total brain fart by not only me, but the publishing professionals that took 20 passes looking specifically for my brain farts. I apologize. Profusely. If I were to write that sentence today it would have read “…no other team could have done what his team did, which was to hire a black shortstop as its first baseman and then second baseman, and end segregation in baseball.”

I’m still not exactly sure how Milano has risen to the role she’s assumed in the past few years, but there are far worst potential house guests every time they pan the crowd at a Dodgers game, so what the hell.

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