BASEBALL
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My concerns about the future of baseball—a $10 billion sport enjoying an unprecedented era of financial success and labor peace—are not based on misplaced nostalgia for a “pure” game that never existed. They are based on the dissonance between a game that demands and depends on concentration, time, and memory and a twenty-first-century culture that… Read more
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Yesterday I went to an afternoon Twins-Rockies game with my daughter Morgan at Target Field. Between rainstorms, we got to see a whole lot of offense. 26 runs for both teams. Yesterday’s 17-9 score is, of course, an anomaly. It is a football score, not a baseball one. Especially this year. According to all relevant… Read more
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Last summer, as I rediscovered my love and passion for baseball, I also rediscovered Minnesota Town Ball. Minnesota, my home now for almost 40 years, is the state with the most community-centered amateur baseball teams (called Town Ball teams). It is also the state with the most community bands. When I first started dating my… Read more
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Sometime before Covid, after blogging on several different sites for more than 10 years, I wrote what I believed at the time to be my very last blog post. I closed my laptop, let the domain I had go, and started working on other “projects.” Recently though, like a phantom limb, I have been feeling… Read more
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