Ever since his freshman year in college, Don had been haunted by a nightmare, one that kept coming back no matter how hard he tried to put it out of his mind:
Legends, heroes, myths, downright lies —where would baseball be without them? They've been around ever since Abner Doubleday didn't…
Baseball can be a powerful tool for connecting. So it has been for me — connections to other people and to other times.
One of my favourite "tools," however, has been my old Mickey Mantle glove. It's my security blanket whenever I play and it's made…
Most of the big names in major league baseball declined to play in the World Baseball Classic, their attitude partly summed up by New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard who said, “I’m a Met. And ain’t nobody made it to the Hall of Fame or win a World Series playing in the WBC.” How short-sighted…
Like the proverbial lion with a thorn in its paw, I was feeling irritable and out of sorts. My departure from Comets had left me in a foul mood. I swore at the apple trees, kicked the stone troughs in front of our house and sulked over dinner. All of…
With so many starts and stops, even the most canny prognosticator would have been hard-pressed to predict where French baseball was heading. Was it just hype when A. G. Spalding predicted…
This blog is supposed to be about baseball but I just read about something that happened in the Olympics that I want to comment on…
For those of you who can hardly wait for the 2018 baseball season to start, we’d like to call attention to something we hope will make the waiting period less agonizing.
It’s a new feature we’re adding to our blog. We’re calling it “The Reading Season” and essentially…
We’re publishing this article to commemorate one of the most deadly battles in history, the Battle of the Somme which began 100 years ago today and claimed nearly 20,000 lives on the first day alone. By the time the…
One of the nicest things about living in France is the regular cycle of brocantes. Brocantes are a combination flea market and antique fair that crop up throughout the country. They can be big or small and can draw dealers who handle everything from soup terrines to nutcrackers. One thing you…