Author Archives: Eric

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 →

Navin Vaswani is a writer extroardinaire at NotGraphs and the lone Canadian participating in Reading Club. I’ve got a couple of confessions: One: I don’t recall having read any baseball fiction; if I have, I don’t remember the book(s). And, … Continue reading →

Pete Beatty is a future boss at The Classical and P&P’s resident Jim Thome scholar. Some people will demur but “Guert Affenlight” is a truly excellent ridiculous name for a fictional character. “Guert Affenlight” is exactly the kind of name … Continue reading →

Away we go with preliminary expectations from some of our contributors before hitting the pages. Please feel free to share your own hopes, dreams, fears about the Art of Fielding in the comment section below. Also: this goes without saying, … Continue reading →