Strength for the Fight: The Life and Faith of Jackie Robinson By Gary Scott Smith (Eerdmans, 315 pages, $25) Today, April 15, is Jackie Robinson Day. This annual commemoration by Major League Baseball of its first black player, the man…
Baseball’s playoff period is a perfect time to reflect on how that sport’s institutional missteps reflect those of American society and politics. One of the game’s most wonderful attributes used to be its ability to bring people together, regardless of…
It’s been all over the sports news — an obsession, one might call it — for the past week: New York Yankee Aaron Judge’s quest to break Roger Maris’s American League record of home runs in a single season. Part…
Major League Baseball (MLB) should be experiencing a banner year in 2022, what with the worst of the pandemic behind us and nearly half of the teams entering September with a legitimate shot at the postseason. Despite that, attendance is…
There is a classic scene in the 1991 hit movie City Slickers starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, and Bruno Kirby. Two of the dude-ranch patrons (Stern and Kirby), out on a let’s-pretend cattle drive, are walking toward a campfire and…
Joe Duggan’s fine column in Sunday’s TAS web contrasting the true baseball gent Stan Musial and the hostile hothead Jack Flaherty deserves a wide readership. It’s yet another sad but telling example of how all major leagues sports, formerly a…
St. Louis Outside Busch Stadium stands an iconic statue of “The Man,” the baseball Cardinals’ greatest player, Stan Musial. St. Louisans like to remember Musial according to Commissioner Ford Frick’s description as “baseball’s perfect knight.” During and after his career…
TAMPA, Fla. — Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $35 million the state legislature had approved in the latest state budget to help build a spring training facility for the Tampa Bay Rays. “I don’t support giving taxpayer dollars…
Just stand up to them, for G-d’s sakes. The Left has inadequate backing. They are paper. Conservatives are intimidated by paper. The need is for Culture Warriors to take on the Social Justice Warriors in a battle to the finish….
