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October 2013

October 10, 2013

The beards of the Red Sox

I now like the Red Sox. How can you not pull for a team whose...

October 07, 2013

The playoffs

As far as baseball in concerned, to true fans of the game, this is the...

September 2013

September 10, 2013

Olympics choose Tokyo & wrestling

Tokyo won the 2020 Olympics, beating out Istanbul and Madrid. I'd say that was a...

August 2013

August 09, 2013

Drugs and sports

Major league baseball suspended 13 players, including superstar Alex Rodriguez and three All Stars, for...

August 01, 2013

Pastor Strawberry

Remember Darryl Strawberry, the baseball superstar whose life came apart because of alcohol and drugs? ...

April 2013

April 23, 2013

The moralistic approach to filmmaking

Movies that are explicitly Christian are often moralistic and preachy, with characters that are stereotyped...

April 01, 2013

Opening Day

In yet another day marking the renewal that is Spring, today is the new baseball...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

Spring training!

For some people, the portent of spring, with it promise of new life and new...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

How you know when you’re an adult

Wisdom from Earl Weaver, the legendary manager of the Baltimore Orioles, who died on January...

January 23, 2013

“Public displays” of faith

Mollie Hemingway writes about the way the media addresses the late Stan Musial's religion. Most...

January 21, 2013

Stan the Man

One of the most awe-inspiring baseball players of all time died last Saturday, Stan "the...

January 10, 2013

No one elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame

For only the 8th time in history, no veteran ballplayer got elected to the Baseball...

November 2012

November 19, 2012

Baseball post-mortem

I was glad to see that the Washington Nationals' Davey Johnson won the National League's...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

The World Series

The San Francisco Giants did to the St. Louis Cardinals what the Cardinals had been...

October 15, 2012

The agony and the ecstasy of playoffs

The baseball playoffs are on another level of sports enjoyment. These games are not relaxing,...

October 02, 2012

Nationals win NL East

The Washington Nationals, my home team now, after years of being bad, have won the...

September 2012

September 04, 2012

The Washington Nationals

Since I've moved out here to the D.C. area I've been obeying the baseball anthem...

July 2012

July 02, 2012

An architect’s vocation

World Magazine has a profile of architect David Greusel, who specializes in designing baseball stadiums. ...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

Epic fails

Do you read the mad-cap sports columnist Norman Chad? His latest column is about the...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

Christian perfectionism

Phil Humber of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect game last Saturday against the...

April 05, 2012

Opening Day!

The baseball season begins again! Hope springs eternal. I add reading box scores to my...

March 2012

March 09, 2012

Contraception is not health care

The great Anthony Esolen reminds us, in the midst of the Obamacare insurance mandate, that...

November 2011

November 23, 2011

Baseball’s new labor agreement

Major League baseball, unlike the National Basketball Association, has a new labor agreement, one attained...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

What a game

UPDATE: The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series! They did to the Texas Rangers...

October 20, 2011

The World Serious

Even though the St. Louis Cardinals broke my heart by beating the Brewers in the...

October 10, 2011

Weekend sports

Watching baseballl playoff games is intense, especially if you have a horse in the race....

October 03, 2011

Wisconsin’s big weekend

This was being called the biggest sports weekend in the history of Wisconsin, my former...

September 2011

September 05, 2011

Defensive plays

Charles Krauthammer, taking a break from bemoaning the state of the world, devoted a column...

July 2011

July 19, 2011

Prosecuting Roger Clemens

The great pitcher Roger Clemens testified before a Congressional hearing that he had not used...

April 2011

April 15, 2011

A church and the Jackie Robinson signing

A church played a major role in baseball history: Sometimes, matters of faith have a...