by Jack Moline | Oct 20, 2021 | Opinion
I have the very good fortune of knowing the United States Senate’s biggest baseball fan, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Among the books he keeps close at hand is an edition of Baseball Almanac so that he can be prepared to settle any argument over America’s pastime and...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 2, 2021 | Opinion
David Ralston, Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, took a break from a legislative agenda aimed at voter suppression after a majority in the state cast votes in the two most recent elections that were unpleasing to him and his Republican colleagues. Yet,...
by Ed Hogan | Nov 21, 2019 | Opinion
The Chicago White Sox were involved in a scandal to “throw” the 1919 World Series. Players were paid very little back then, which made them vulnerable to the deep pockets of sports gamblers. They were paid off, the Sox lost the series, and the players involved are now...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and W. Mark Koenig | Aug 20, 2015 | Opinion
A mid-August game at Citi Field between the Pirates and the Mets involved good friends and good baseball. It also involved, in our section, a racial moment. Two young men brought a flag of the Republic of Korea to the game, standing quietly to display the flag each...
by Larry Eubanks | Jun 19, 2015 | Opinion
On every baseball team there is always a kid who has a hard time judging fly balls. This is the guy who is so fixated on where the ball is that he never can figure out where the ball is going to be. So the coach puts him out in right field, where fewer balls are hit....