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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...
You Should Listen to the World Series on the Radio October 29, 2024
Playoff baseball just hits different. This is a widely-agreed-upon fact among diehards, casual fans, and haters alike. Each at-bat in a pressure-packed postseason series is magnified in stark contrast to the long, grueling 162-game regular season. Co...
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 ...
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...
A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide October 25, 2024
THE YEAR IS 1906. Theodore Roosevelt is in the White House. In New York, the newspapers are reporting on the political aspirations of William Randolph Hearst, unrest in Russia, and the latest dividends from US Steel. Scientific American is running ar...
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...
Pete Rose Is Dead. Now Reinstate Him October 02, 2024
Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader, died at 83 Monday, roughly 35 years and a month after he signed a letter agreeing to a permanent ban from the sport. The three-time World Series champion, most valuable player of the 1975 Serie...
The Greatest Baseball Series Ever August 08, 2024
This year marks the 100 anniversary of the 1924 World Series. It is considered one of the best in baseball history, featuring the Washington Senators defeating the New York Giants in a seventh game that went 12 innings. It was the only World Series c...
