By Rebecca Glass
This is not a topic that will appease many. Some will consider it downright blasphemy.
Heroes, after all, are supposed to be immortal. They are supposed to be more than human, faultless, blameless, and incapable of aging past their prime.
For over a decade now, Derek Jeter has been more than a hero to [...]
By Alessandro Nicolo
This article first appeared here in 2005.
I used to watch ‘This Week in Baseball’ quite a bit in the 1980s - the Golden Age of Montreal Expos baseball for some. Others believe it to be the 60s and 70s were the Golden Age -which would make the 80s the Silver Age I suppose. [...]
By Rebecca Glass
We celebrated Jackie Robinson yesterday, and the breaking of the color barrier.
The importance of Robinson cannot be overstated.
There was one barrier, however, Robinson could not break. No one speaks about it, because half of the time we forget it exists. You wouldn’t know it exists, anyway—not if you looked at the mix of [...]
By Derek Braid
My open love for the Toronto Blue Jays has caused me a measurable degree of strife when conjuring a topic for my Thursday MLB piece. As the date will attest, my reluctance to speak truthfully and realistically on the fate of this years Blue Jays squad and the MLB playoffs has delayed the [...]
By Alessandro Nicolo
“The world is always rolling between our legs…”
John Hodges, ‘Forgiving Buckner.’
In the annals of sports Bill Buckner occupies a dreaded and dubious existence.
Let’s recap why this is so.
1986.
I was 14.
Game 6 of the World Series. Boston Red Sox versus the New York Mets. Boston led the series 3-2. For those of you mathematically [...]
By Rebecca Glass
NEW YORK YANKEES
Once upon a time, eight years ago, the New York Yankees finished the season with 87 wins. Though this number was significantly less than either of the last two years, the Yankees still found a way not just to win their division and advance to the World Series, but they beat [...]
Why is the World Anti-doping Agency WADA obsessed with chastising private enterprises like Major League Baseball and the National Football League to become their bitch? I’m not sure what the power politics is like behind the scenes but my spidey senses are going hay wire on this one.
It makes no sense to me [...]
The baseball Hall of Fame recently inducted Rich “Goose” Gossage.
Meanwhile back at the Hall of Justice, Jim Rice and Andre Dawson discuss what to do with the Wonder Twins as the news hit that they were overlooked – again.
It is time to revisit these odd omissions – again.
Specifically, the case of Andre Dawson. Let’s begin [...]
EXCLUSIVE! MUST CREDIT TUFFY! EXCLUSIVE!!!
Intrepid readers, I have uncovered a shocking attempt to undermine the integreity of the most important vote so far this year. I spent actual moments considering verifying this report from an unnamed source on deep background cover slideshow screening hush hush too shy eye to eye double secret probation.
A small band [...]
What’s the big hubabub-bub about steroids anyway?
It was legal and it helped star athletes heal better. And if they called a couple of call girls in the process all the better. A man has gotta relax.
So what he threw a broken bat at Mike Piazza and his gay porn pride mustache? [...]