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Book Review: A Day in the Bleachers by Arnold Hano
NFL Football is a sport that is much better on television than in person. The concentrated bursts of action between long periods of inactivity are enhanced by instant replay, color commentators, and...
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Guest Post: “Pitchers and Catchers Report” by Jared Linsly
The Long Dark Night is Ending For baseball fans, can there be any words sweeter than these: “pitchers and catcher report”? Spring training means hope and the end of darkness. It means that long...
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Poetry Review: “Baseball and Writing” by Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore throwing out the first pitch 1968 Marianne Moore was a voracious reader. This encyclopedic nature of hers is at the heart of why she is a difficult poet. She brings more to a poem than...
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Duke Snider – in memoriam
Brooklyn Dodger great Duke Snider, who passed away this past weekend, played his Hall of Fame career in the shadow of two of the only center fielders in history who could be called better than him,...
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Wait till next year…
Kirby Puckett With last night’s predictable Timberwolves loss, another miserable basketball season in Minnesota has come mercifully to a close. For basketball fans in the gopher state, it has been...
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Harmon Killebrew – in memoriam
The famous swing This week the upper Midwest and true baseball fans everywhere have been mourning the loss of baseball great Harmon Killebrew… one of the greatest home run hitters ever. In my way of...
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On Strikes and Seasons
The NFL lockout looks like it is coming to an end. By all accounts the NBA one though, has the potential of taking down all or part of the season. In the revenue strong NFL it was a battle over...
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Gary Carter – In Memoriam
Gary Carter played the best years of his career in a hockey town in another country for a team that was perennially off everyone’s radar list. Yet he managed to get All-Star and MVP candidate votes...
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On Sports and Art
(photo by m.a.h. hinton) The unseasonably warm winter continues here in the North Country. Each day the sun climbs just a bit higher and burns just a bit brighter and longer. The longer light lightens...
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Hugh’s Journal
The feature Hugh’s Journals has appeared here on Sundays. For some basic background on Rev. Hugh Bebb Jones and his notebooks click here. Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, 1941 According to his notation,...
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Book Review: Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
The best baseball books are autobiographical. This is because baseball is the most measurable of games. We can look at a player’s statistics and the box scores of games and know the bones of the sport....
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On Trump, Truth, and Baseball
The madness that is Trump never seems to end. It is one stupid thing followed by one scandalous thing by one outrageous thing. A continuing cycle of unethical and dangerous behavior that stupefies and...
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An Old-School Brain
Late February means Spring Training has begun. This year I am prepping for baseball by reading The Bill James Handbook 2020 and a couple of baseball magazines including Lindy’s Baseball Preview 2020. I...
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