Larry Thornberry

Baseball and Memory: Winning, Losing, and the Remembrance of Things Past By Lee Congdon (St. Augustine’s Press, 140 pages, $25)…

TAMPA — President Obama’s Florida approval rating was well above water just after SEAL Team 6 canceled Osama’s ticket. Not…

PLANT CITY, FLORIDA — Conservative South Florida Congressman Allen West, looking every inch the soldier he was for 22 years,…

TAMPA — A little brush got cleared from the Florida U.S. Senate race this week when Florida State Senate President…

TAMPA — The Florida 2012 election cycle is at an awkward stage — 13 months out from the primaries, 16…

TAMPA – The Tampa Smokers won another baseball game Saturday after a long dry spell. The Smokers hadn’t picked up…

Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game By Dan Barry (Harper, 259 pages, $26.99) Part of the…

TAMPA — The candidates for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Florida clearly believe red-meat conservatism will be the favored…

Although Stan Musial played his last baseball game nearly a decade before I was born, I have long been fond…

TAMPA — In presidential politics, Florida is very big medicine. Florida’s 27 electoral votes in 2008, ten percent of what…