Always play like Roberto Clemente; a story on the greatest day in Brooklyn Dodgers history; trying to break the habit of rooting for the Yankees; words on players liked for their words; Casey should have been IBB’d; we honest to goodness found the least watchable hitter in the game; beware the October buzzsaw
Love: Luis Arraez Style; the story of a baseball field in Arrey, New Mexico; Good Omens; female scouts remain not welcomed by some; so are we really never going to talk about why the Cubs are playing close to Thanksgiving in ‘The Martian’?; calling someone else’s shot
Bill Buckner and forgiveness; it’s a long season, and so is recovery; they flatten the building where you watched baseball; insisting to your casual baseball fan friend Tauchman isn’t this good; Gleyber Torres: average Gen Zer; some players don’t have to be told by Ken Griffey Jr. to keep fighting
There has yet to be an Indian in the big leagues; baseball as “escape”; enjoy the baseball while they still baseball; the Baltimore Oriole confirmed he was a duck all along; Rob Manfred returns to the Rawlings factory; the five stages of giving up on a season
Tyler Skaggs, grief, and magical thinking; when opioid overdoses make you think of home; Trevor Rosenthal will (and did) record an out again; Willians Astudillo is in the zone; keeping up with all of the Jeff Joneses; the 2030 Front Office All-Star Game
Carol Danvers played baseball, and she always got back up; non-astronaut throws baseball; sorry prospects, it’s prospecting night at the ballpark; creating the best Topps baseball card pack ever; the sad case of Charlie Hollocher; RIP Brody Stevens
Don’t think about the last time you attended a funeral in Pittsburgh. Don’t think about your great aunt’s funeral on one of those cold gray days the city specializes in. A city with less sunshine than Seattle; a city clouded in funereal gray. Your sister stands next to you, and your shoes sink in the…