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Category Archives: Baseball the Teacher
The Noble Hearts Ache
Today is the first day since the World Series ended that I have felt a compulsion to write about baseball. It’s a good feeling, this impulse, and I was beginning to worry it would never return. But really I should … Continue reading
Who’s Our Daddy? A Roger Angell Appreciation
Roger Angell is 89 years old. He was born in 1920. To put that in perspective, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle were born in 1931. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were born in 1924. What I’m saying is that … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Media
Tagged AJ Burnett, Alex Rodriguez, CC Sabathia, Chase Utley, cliff lee, Hideki Mastui, Nick Swisher, roger angell, the new yorker
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Nate McLouth And The Modern Indentured Servitude
When I was young and green and full of vigor, I read the sports page every day before school. And by read I mean read through; I looked at the standings, the box scores, a few columns or articles, and … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Conventional Wisdom, Thinking
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The Mulder Collective
Something really weird happened to me this afternoon. I got all nostalgic about Mark Mulder. I was thinking about pitching, preparing to write a post about the rise of a new wave of aces, when all of a sudden there … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Features
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Fandom & Identity: Reflections In A Cloudy Stadium Bathroom Mirror
There is a video making its way around the internet of some American Jewish kids on vacation in Jerusalem spewing a bunch of racist garbage, mostly about Barack Obama. . The kids are drunk, probably from some wealthy yeshiva in … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Politics, Thinking
Tagged Fandom, George Orwell, Identity, Jews, Nationalism, Politics, Racism, Religion, Society
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Keith Hernandez Meets A Tenor
(yet another thing to love about KH) Keith Hernandez espouses on his arrival in New York (in New York Mag) and on meeting Placido Domingo: And you’d be a fool to live here and not take advantage of the cultural … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Spring Training
Tagged Keith Hernandez, Placido Domingo
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Alex Rodriguez: Tragic Hero? (Part II)
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” – The Witches of Macbeth This started as an essay called Alex Rodriguez: Tragic Hero. I had noble intensions for it; I was going to compare A-Rod to Macbeth. I would have matched … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Books, Features, Thinking
Tagged Alex Rodriguez, Heroism, Macbeth, Scott Boras, Steroids
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Alex Rodriguez: Tragic Hero? (Part I)
When I was younger I wanted to be a baseball player. But I can’t remember whether I loved baseball, or whether I just wanted everyone to love me. A confession, then: I still want everyone to love me—blindly, entirely, without … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Memoir, Thinking
Tagged Alex Rodriguez, Cody Walker, Dreams, Tragic Hero, Writing
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