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Goodbye to Baseball’s Most Anachronistic Rule February 26, 2025
The New York Yankees have abandoned their half-century prohibition of beards, a policy that was archaic even from its infancy. Now I find myself strangely, unexpectedly bereft, stroking my own beard in contemplation of what the world might lose when ...
Aaron Judge Will Have a Very Long Winter November 06, 2024
It was the fifth inning of the fifth game of the World Series. With the Yankees up 5-0, one Dodger runner on, and no outs, L.A.’s Tommy Edman lofted a soft fly ball directly at Aaron Judge, the Yankees center-fielder and one of the best baseball play...
The United Charms of Baseball November 05, 2024
Let us now take a respite from the cleaving political moment to praise famous men in slightly more convivial division. The World Series has just been contested between those old baseball rivals, the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, and f...
Loading Up October 28, 2024
This year’s World Series, which begins in Los Angeles tonight, features the two largest sporting markets going head-to-head, the revival of the original Subway Series between the (once Brooklyn) Dodgers and the New York Yankees and the promise of bas...
Baseball Is for the Losers October 28, 2024
Baseball culminates every year in the sinking light of autumn evenings, crisp weather that excites the heart and offers clarity on the latest long season. This has been a signal year not so much because of the superiority of any one team but because ...
World Series! October 22, 2024
On the morning after the New York Yankees won their first pennant in fifteen years, I was playing softball in Brooklyn’s Dyker Park. Sunday morning softball is, for me, a mostly nonnegotiable ritual that runs from the beginning of April into November...
Will We Finally Get Another Subway Series? October 14, 2024
New York is a baseball town. The NFL has been subsumed. Stroll around the five boroughs and witness the blue-and-orange, once donned sheepishly or with dour fatalism, become Hope personified. Consider Grimace, OMG, Hawk Tuah, Polar Bear’s playoff pum...
Juan Soto Changed Everything for the Yankees May 28, 2024
The stares float through the stadium with the pollen currents well before the newest star in pinstripes steps onto his chalk and clay stage. During pregame stretching routines in April and again in May, Juan Soto—the most talented New York Yankees tr...
When New York Made Baseball March 27, 2024
Of all the arenas gone from New York, there are two that a sports-obsessed New Yorker may regret most never having seen. One is the old Madison Square Garden, with its Saint-Gaudens statue of Diana dancing on the skyline, and its memorable murder, wh...
