Author Archives: Eric

Pete Beatty is a future boss at The Classical and P&P’s resident Jim Thome scholar. “Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”–Poetics “Is Ahab, Ahab?”–Moby-Dick, Ch 132 As Henry and Schwartz and the fifth business folks eddy … Continue reading →

If I was going to pick one chapter of The Art of Fielding to excerpt on Pitchers & Poets it would be Chapter 50. Chapter 50 deals explicitly with none of the story’s main characters – Guert Affenlight is there, … Continue reading →

Find more of Adam at Everyday Footnotes. I have made a point of avoiding anything that might spoil any part of TAF for me. I *did* buy last month’s Vanity Fair so I could read Keith Gessen’s article on TAF … Continue reading →

Find more of Megan Wells at Around the Horn from Aerys Sports. Noted things: Pella does everyone else’s half of a fight for them. Chef Spirodocus didn’t even know he was in a fight, and seemed pretty unfazed; but her … Continue reading →

Bryan Harvey, who has previously written here about Brian McCann and Jason Heyward and John Henry, is a high school teacher and poet, who writes for The Faster Times and The Lawn Chair Boys. His poetry has appeared in the … Continue reading →

David Matthews is a former Deadspin scribe and nnow one of those freelance writers in Brookly. Durng 90s First Basemen Week, he wrote about the stylish Fred McGriff. Through the first 230 or so pages, The Art of Fielding has … Continue reading →

Pete Beatty is a future boss at The Classical and P&P’s resident Jim Thome scholar. Early-onset Steve Blass Disease. May-November blow jobs. Menial labor as an anti-neurotic therapeutic. Getting rejected from law school. Everyone at Westish College is bugging. At least … Continue reading →

Dayn Perry is a senior writer at NotGraphs and skilled Reggie Jackson biographer. This runs long, but I’ll do better at reining it in going forward … “The last time I forced myself to slog through a work of fiction … Continue reading →