Tag Archives: baseball

Thom Jones: The Pugilist at Rest (in Peace)

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Sean Murphy

Thom Jones was not a one-shot wunderkind so much as a career scrapper who banged back at a world intent on beating the shit out of him. Continue reading →

Posted in Appreciations | Tagged baseball, boxing, Cold Snap, Dostoyevsky, Jake LaMotta, short stories, Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, the New Yorker, The Pugilist at Rest, Theogenes, Thom Jones, tolstoy, writing | 1 Comment

My Summer with Zack Hample, the A-Rod of Ballhawking

Posted on September 30, 2015 by John Proctor

Talk about moneyball! Meet the guy who caught A-Rod’s 3000th hit, among other great souvenir balls. Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged A-Rod, ballhawking, baseball, collectibles, MLB, souvenirs, zack hample | Leave a comment

Royal Blue: Return of the Repressed

Posted on April 6, 2015 by John Proctor

A long-suffering fan of the Kansas City Royals gears up for another hopeful season. Continue reading →

Posted in Sports | Tagged baseball, Kansas City Royals, Marxism | Leave a comment

Power Trio: Three Songs I Can Imagine Being Played Over the Stadium Sound System As I Walk To The Mound if I Happened To Be A Major League Relief Pitcher

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Rachel Pollon

Sitting in the sun-splashed confines of Dodger Stadium, Rachel Pollon imagines herself as baseball’s Next Great Reliever, and picks the three songs she’d play as she trotted to the mound. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged aretha franklin, baseball, beastie boys, body movin, catchers, conquest, intimidation, pitchers, players, rachel pollon williams, relief pitching, rock steady, Sex, teammates, the white stripes | 7 Comments

Eastbound and Down: Another Middle-Aged White Guy Breaks Bad

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Lara Zarum

Kenny Powers and Walter White couldn’t be less alike. Except both are real, manly men doing real, manly things – like baseball and meth-making. Lara Zarum looks deeper at TV’s favorite character, the middle-aged white guy and his dream of machismo. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture | Tagged baseball, Breaking Bad, Eastbound and Down, Kenny Powers, Walter White | 2 Comments

Is Yasiel Puig the Next Jeremy Lin?

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Brian McGuigan

Brian McGuigan compares the recent ascension of LA Dodgers slugger and Cuban defector Yasiel Puig with last year’s bout of Linsanity, the rise of Chinese-American point guard Jeremy Lin. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture | Tagged 42 million dollars, baseball, basketball, Ben and Jerrys, Chinese-American, cuba, Cuban defector, don mattingly, Harvard, Houston Rockets, Jeremy Lin, Koby Bryant, Linsanity, Los Angeles Dodgers, The New York Knicks, Yao Ming, Yasiel Puig | 2 Comments