Road Games
I was born on the twenty-sixth day of the eighth month in the absolute middle of the 20th century, 8/26/1950. My first recollected memory, from 1953, is of my father coming home on a Friday evening as...
View ArticleBaseball Mojo and Filial Son
A few days back I mentioned how I watched from from afar while Tug McGraw pitched the final inning of Game Six of the 1980 World Series, an unforgettable few minutes for any Phillies’ fan. Tug, who...
View ArticleShoes. You Lose
BAGHDAD – Television reporter Muntadar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki today while screaming, “This is a...
View ArticlePrayer and Baseball
I belong to a listserv group, one I‘ve been dropping in and out of for about 14 years. Over the years I have had face-to-face meeting with eight other members, all without the least shred of...
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Baseball, New and Old
The MLB (Major League Baseball) season is underway again, and for some of us, that means some nebulous sense of order has been returned to the universe. Last year there were two pre-season MLB games in...
View ArticleSeptember? It Must Be Baseball.
It’s difficult to get through an entire spring and summer without writing something about baseball, even if it won’t ever get much of a grip here in China. Despite the MLB’s recent series of promo...
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