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As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown... →
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's... →
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is... →
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated... →
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits... →
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the... →
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's... →
More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home... →
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place... →
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called... →
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