Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from o….

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits d….

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way..

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something….

Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing..

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences..

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home….

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people..

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such..

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective..

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year..

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such ….

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and….

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles ….

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitabili….

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things..

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civ….

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national….

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young..

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off..

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings..