The latest in a very long line

There’s many things that I love about baseball, but if you strip everything else away, the game inspires us tremendously. Until and unless another sport captures our collective imaginations and flights of fancy the way baseball does, there can never be any discussion about which sport is the best. Simply put, art imitates life, and

A weird and wonderful baseball card

I have written about baseball cards on this blog from time to time, because they inspire me on occasion. But I’m not at all a believer in the idea that they have any actual monetary value. They’re fun to have, but they aren’t worth the cardboard or cardstock that they’re printed on, either. Yesterday at

On fire this month

This post is the 57th that I’ve written for this blog in January of 2013. And there’s still a few days left in the month, so I feel like I’m chasing Babe Ruth or Roger Maris or whoever those steroid era guys were. I know their names, actually, but I’m just trying to throw a

A story for post number 715

There’s been a few times where I have tied something I wrote in this space to the number of the post. Yes, I do keep track of how many posts I’ve put into this space. And this is the 715th post I’ve written, in the year and-a-half I’ve been at this. There’s only one thing

A rough day for the ex-Sox

I remember the old days at Comiskey Park. And not the new one that became U.S. Cellular Field, either. The old one that Babe Ruth played in, and where Steve Dahl killed disco in 1979. Those were both before my time in Chicago, but I did get to go there a few times before they

Dating an old photo

The picture above was referenced in an earlier piece I wrote in this space. But I wanted to return to it once again, to show how the internet has changed things. This is especially true of doing research. What once took days to track down, or just couldn’t be tracked down at all, can now

A myth debunked

A July afternoon, Chase Park My younger daughter is enrolled in a swimming class at a pool that’s not quite in our neighborhood, but not terribly far away, either. The heat of this miserable summer claimed a few of the lessons, when the pool was overrun by those wanting to beat the heat more than

Coming at life from the left

Yes, I have already written something about Dave Roberts and The Steal here. There’s not much I can say about him here, except to point out that he played for four teams other than the Red Sox, but I imagine that nobody knows this. And even though he’s the Red Sox’ 2004 hero, you’ll likely

Credit where credit is due

I’ve worked in the publishing industry for over a decade, and there are certain traits that one needs to have in order to do this. First and foremost among these is a love of reading. It’s pretty simple, really. If you love reading books, then it makes sense to help with making more books. And

Maybe this explains what happened to the Red Sox

Earlier this year, I went to Washington, DC with my family on Spring Break. Since it was in April, and baseball season had just gotten underway, I naturally wanted to take in a ballgame if I could. The Nationals were out of town that week, but the Orioles were playing at home against the Twins.

A dramatic win for the Cubs

September 28 marks the end of another lost season for the Cubs. They never did make any noise on the field, except to scare away the seagulls that were flocking to the outfield early in the season. The post-mortem reports of what went wrong, and what’s needed in the offseason to rebuild the team, will

C=100 posts

This is my 100th post on this site. I started this blog on a whim last June, since I had written a story and didn’t know what to do with it. My first instinct was to send it to Baseballisms, which is another blog that has a Facebook page I read from time to time.

A Hall of Famer lived in my neighborhood

When it comes to having a long and storied career, the Cubs don’t have anyone better than Leo Charles “Gabby” Hartnett. He didn’t win a World Series title, but there wasn’t too much that he didn’t accomplish over his career, from winning an MVP to being named a six time All-Star, and from winning four