For a profession associated with multimillion dollar salaries, international recognition and nonstop glamour, life as a baseball player requires an incredible tolerance for boredom. It comes with thousands of hours flying on airplanes, countless nights sleeping alone in hotel rooms and enough downtime at the ballpark each day to drive a person batty.

As a result, ballplayers must constantly find ways to kill time, and everybody in the league eventually develops his preferred method. But Yankees backup catcher Chris Stewart...