To paraphrase from a Thomas Boswell classic, “Time Begins on Opening Day.” In Michael Ortman‘s case, multiply that times 50. One of the things I wanted to ask the author of Opening Day: 50-for-50: One Fan, One Game, A Half-Century of Baseball Stories was how his approach to the game has changed over time. Like […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Tra la, it’s May, the lusty Month of May That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray… That’s from the Broadway production of Camelot, folks. Look it up. Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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As we inch closer and closer not just to the beginning of the playing season, but the reading season as well when new titles hit the stores. Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time […]
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Fight to the Finish: How the Washington Nationals Rallied to Become 2019 World Series Champions, by the Washington Post Consider these the instant replays of the newspaper business: the local team wins the Fall Classic and within days the major daily slaps together archival stories and photos and, bingo, instant memories. It’s kind of hard […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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About the World Series. Haven’t done one of these in a long time. I think I even neglected to write when Keith Hernandez was a guest back when his latest memoir — I’m Keith Hernandez: A Memoir — was published last year. But with the Washington Nationals winning the first championship for the nation’s capital […]
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After all, there have been recent revivals for musicals like West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, and Oklahoma… That’s the first thing I thought of when I came across this interesting piece by Thomas Boswell in yesterday’s Washington Post. After all, there has to bee some explanation as to how the Nationals came back […]
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Note: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish writing one). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes. In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one […]
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Ted Williams,
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World Series
If you are a Facebook friend, you know my feelings about our sitting president. I have tried to keep all of that out of this site, believing baseball is a refuge from the cares and woes of the outside world. Unfortunately, the reaction of the crowd to Donald Trump’s appearance at Game Five of the […]
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Congratulations to the Washington Nationals, winners of the National League pennant and World Series participants for the first time in franchise history. Remember about 15 years ago when baseball was considering contracting a few teams. The Nats’ antecedents, the Montreal Expos, were in line for that fate. In fact, I traveled to my ancestral manse […]
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NOTE: I have been posting these things long enough now that a few have commented that the introductory section isn’t necessary anymore. But I’m leaving it in because, to paraphrase Joe DiMaggio when asked why he played so hard all the time, there may be people who’ve never read the best-seller entries before. So on […]
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St. Louis Cardinals,
Ted Williams,
Tim Kurkjian,
Ty Cobb,
Washington Nationals,
World Series
NOTE: I have been posting these things long enough now that a few have commented that the introductory section isn’t necessary anymore. But I’m leaving it in because, to paraphrase Joe DiMaggio when asked why he played so hard all the time, there may be people who’ve never read the best-seller entries before. So on […]
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Pitching,
St. Louis Cardinals,
Ted Williams,
Tim Kurkjian,
Ty Cobb,
Washington Nationals,
World Series
NOTE: I have been posting these things long enough now that a few have commented that the introductory section isn’t necessary anymore. But I’m leaving it in because, to paraphrase Joe DiMaggio when asked why he played so hard all the time, there may be people who’ve never read the best-seller entries before. So on […]
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baseball analysis,
baseball statistics,
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instructionals,
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Michel Lewis,
Mike Matheny,
New York Mets,
Oakland Athletics,
Pitching,
Ron Darling,
St. Louis Cardinals,
Ted Williams,
Tim Kurkjian,
Ty Cobb,
Washington Nationals,
World Series