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The Cubs were in the midst of a losing streak. Is “streak,” the right word when you’re losing? A streak seems something positive. A fast forward motion in a certain
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5 June 1989, Mariners v. Royals, the game is tied in the bottom of the 10th. Seattle speedster Harold Reynolds gets a thief’s jump off first on a line drive
Monday 15 May 2022 two Reds pitchers combined for a no-hitter… and lost. It is only the sixth time in MLB history that a team has allowed an opponent not
The Color of Blood & the Reds Read More »
Asking for a friend: If you have tickets to the ballgame, but cannot go, is it wrong to cheer for rain? You see, I was not feeling well. Head and
May May Be More Cruel Read More »
Still thinking about Giants slugger Joc Pederson. Last week Joc was heckled by local bigots at Miller Park in Milwaukee. Joc îs a famous, player, though he is a different
Frustrated? Angry? Focus. Act! Read More »
The Twins walk it off. Down by one. The bottom of the 9th. Men on first and second. Hit to center just over the leather laces of the center fielder,
All Competition Is a Collaboration Read More »
A Bat Wants to be Swung. Grip its handle with both hands, hold it out in front of you, and feel the tug of its top-heaviness. Lift it up, and
Hercules at the bat Read More »
Novelist Jonathan Franzen told Time Magazine why he does not write about race: ““If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person – a person
“Strange Apparent Cruelty” Read More »
At Newark airport boarding my flight back to Chicago, I studied an old copy of Arthur Waley’s The No Plays of Japan (Grove Press, 1957, priced at $1.95). I was
“Mingling with the Mists of Heaven” Read More »
“I, Malvolio,” a one-man show by Tim Crouch, presents “Twelfth Night” from the indignant perspective of the demeaned Malvolio. Crouch’s Malvolio not only indicts his antagonists Sir Toby and Feste
“Strange, stout, in yellow stockings” Read More »
