Photo Credit: John Trupin He’s known subsistence-level baseball. Two years of junior college, riding buses over rutted roads that are in only slightly better repair than the fields they’d buried afternoons in, where the best outcome is to not twist an ankle in a patch of marshy outfield; crowds in the double digits, indifferent umpires,…
This past weekend I found myself at a Goodwill, as one does when one has children who somehow go through pajamas faster than they go through meals. While sustaining the basic needs of said offspring, I discovered one of my favorite things: a monster box of baseball cards for seven dollars, filled with the usual…
You are 10 years old, and it’s Tuesday, and your little league tryouts are on Thursday, and you are sick. It’s the middle of February. One holiday Monday off school was enough for your body’s defenses to relax themselves a bit too much: You woke up with your stomach twisting in knots, your head throbbing,…
By the end, it was difficult to tell whether it had merely become routine or if there was a part of him in which hope still resided. Many argued the former, positing his demand for bus fare in the latter years meant he had gone soft and treated these several weeks in April as a…
Three pieces reflecting on the 1985 World Series, 2018 spring training, and the long road from there to here.
On Friday night, the staggeringly popular George Saunders gave a reading and a brief talk about writing in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The event was part of Saunders’ tour for his Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo. The story is one that encourages a reader to get caught up in the craft, to figure it…
What are the MLBPA’s legal options to “boycott” spring training during the term of a CBA?
A look at the spots up for grabs in this division and the fantasy impacts the winners could have.
A look at the spots up for grabs in this division, and the fantasy impacts this winners could have.
Back-end starters for Arizona and L.A., left fielders for Colorado, and other spots up for grabs in this division.
A look at the spots up for grabs in this division and the fantasy impacts the winners might have.
A look at the spots up for grabs in this division and the potential fantasy impacts of their winners.
Notes on a handful of players who upped their fantasy stocks last month.
The Braves and Marlins aim to settle their rotations, the Phillies hold competitions around the field, and much more.
Young bats could be squeezed out in Chicago, the Brewers look to decide on a closer, and more.