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by | Oct 14, 2022

Baseball’s playoff period is a perfect time to reflect on how that sport’s institutional missteps reflect those of American society…

by | Aug 3, 2022

It was hardly a surprise, after all he was 94, but the news of Vin Scully’s death Tuesday brings great…

by | Jul 24, 2022

The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, and a Hit By Ron…

by | Jul 22, 2022

There is a classic scene in the 1991 hit movie City Slickers starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, and Bruno Kirby….

by | Jun 9, 2022

TAMPA, Fla. — Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $35 million the state legislature had approved in the latest…

by | Jan 7, 2022

I heard it on Colin Cowherd’s entertaining radio show, and it was a statistic about Russell Westbrook, basketball player for…

by | Oct 31, 2021

In our post-everything century in what remains of the increasingly mad Western World, how is a sane person to distinguish…

by | Oct 27, 2021

The nattering nabobs no longer gripe much about teams named after American Indian symbols, like the Atlanta Braves baseball team….

by | Oct 15, 2021

Growing up in New York City, I started playing sand-lot baseball in Central Park at age 9. I collected hundreds…

by | Sep 30, 2021

Jerry Seinfeld has a well-known bit pointing out the somewhat ridiculous nature of our allegiances to sports teams. We basically…

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