Kirk Gibson and the enduring image

Everyone who knows anything about baseball can tell you about Kirk Gibson and the 1988 World Series. It was Game one of that series, and nobody gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a chance against the Bash Brothers that were the Oakland A’s. The A’s had their unstoppable closer, Dennis Eckersley on the mound, when Dodgers

It’s about time for a good baseball movie

One of my favorite baseball quotes comes from Rick Reilly, who wrote that “Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Brad Pitt to get laid.” Everyone who isn’t a Yankees fan can appreciate what that means, and Yankees fans themselves might even agree that they’ve had it so much better than everyone else over