“101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out” is not Josh Pahigian’s newest book, but only because it did so well when it was first released in 2008, it warranted a revamped second edition – the volume that hit shelves in March of this year.

Pahigian, an adjunct English instructor at University of New England and a Fellow in the Center for Global Humanities there, was inspired to write the initial incarnation book only after coincidentally accomplishing much of the research.

“I’d spent several years traveling around the country,” the West Buxton resident says, “going to the big league parks, the minor league parks and the spring training parks, and along the way, I would always seek out unique baseball attractions away from the parks themselves…sites like the Field of Dreams movie site in Iowa, Babe Ruth’s grave in New York, the Cy Young statue on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston, etc.”

In slaking his wanderlust, Pahigian amassed a heap of photos and a mountain of information, knowledge that might’ve qualified as little more than trivia to some – until Lyons Press released the first run of the book and it proved a walk-off homer.

Pahigian, who grew up in Massachusetts, revised “101 Baseball Places” for its latest run by retiring a quarter of the titular places – those that are now defunct or past their prime – and replacing them on the roster with fresh talent.

“25 of the sites [are] new,” says Pahigian, “based on my more recent travels. Some of the sites [had] gone out of business or lost their luster (think Lenny Dykstra’s car wash).”

The latest edition of “101 Baseball Places” also sports new color photos of each location, and a complete re-ranking of the spots. Pahigian himself offers up a little spoiler: The Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., is No. 1.

Pahigian remarks on his three favorite, non-ballpark locations. “I loved playing catch on the cornstalk-ensconced field that had been the setting for many memorable scenes in one of my favorite baseball movies,” he says of the site in Dyersville, Iowa, where much of “Field of Dreams” was filmed.

Of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., he goes on to say: “It was amazing to learn about an often-forgotten era in baseball history and to learn about a flourishing bastion of African American culture that was born out of the ugliness of segregation.”

And of the Forbes Field site on the University of Pittsburgh campus, he says: “It was very cool to visit the site where the ballpark once resided. Much of the brick outfield wall still stands, as well as the centerfield flagpole that was in the field of play. In a nearby academic building, home plate lies beneath Plexiglas near its original location.”

He gives special nods to two other locations as well. First up, the Tiger Stadium site in Detroit, Mich. “The stadium has been demolished but the field is awaiting redevelopment (not gonna happen anytime soon in Detroit),” he says, “so local residents have started mowing the field and lining the bases so area kids can play on the very field where the big leaguers played for nearly a century.”

Finally, the Casey at the Bat statue in Holliston, Mass. Part of the town goes by the name “Mudville,” and claims to be the inspiration for Ernest L. Thayer’s famous poem, “Casey at the Bat.”

“Thayer’s family owned a woolen mill nearby, but never said that the famous setting of his poem was based on the town,” Pahigian says. “But residents of Holliston have happily taken up this mantle, raising a statue in a local baseball fan’s yard. Nearby, there is also a watering

hole called Casey’s Pub, which is full of old baseball memorabilia.”

“101 Baseball Places” includes a handful of locations that, Pahigian confesses, even he hasn’t visited. There’s a banyan tree in Hawaii that Babe Ruth planted on a trip through the archipelago in the 1930s, as well as a ballpark in Fairbanks, Ala., that hosts the so-called “Midnight Sun Game” each June 21, when the days that far north are so long, there’s no need to light the field artificially, even in the dead of night.

“Someday, I hope to cross these off my bucket list, too,” he says.

Pahigian has written a number of other books about baseball as well, including “Spring Training Handbook,” also now in its second edition (McFarland Publishing, 2013); “The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip,” again, enjoying its second edition (Lyons Press, 2012); “The Seventh Inning Stretch,” (Lyons Press, 2010); “The Red Sox in the Playoffs” (McFarland Publishing, 2006); and “Why I Hate the Yankees” (Lyons Press, 2005).

Likewise, he’s written some travel/football pieces for ESPN.com. But though his authorship centers largely around sports, his interests do extend elsewhere. He’s written one novel thus far – “Strangers on the Beach” (Islandport Press, 2012), set in Old Orchard Beach and featuring real landmarks – and a handful of short stories about the American-Armenian experience, some of which have been anthologized and translated into Armenian.

Pahigian’s next project is something of a travel-guide/coffee-table book, again about various intriguing spots across the major- and minor-league baseball landscapes in America, and again featuring photos and detailed backstories. This time, though, he seems less focused on the locales themselves, and more on the features that characterize them.

“Think, the Pesky Pole at Fenway and the Ivy at Wrigley Field,” he says.

Josh Pahigian poses for a headshot at Fenway Park.Courtesy photoThe cover of Josh Pahigian’s latest effort, the second edition of “101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out.”