Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I didn’t grow up a Mickey Mantle fan. Not only was his career after my time, but other than some mentions on Seinfeld, he wasn’t present, or even mentioned, in the popular culture I consumed. As I dove deeper into baseball history, I never got the Mantle bug, so to speak. I accrued a cursory […]
I’m going to let the cat out of the bag right away: this was not a good book, and it almost exclusively falls on its author, Joseph Bosco. You know the sort of writer who can’t help but write a phrase within a phrase, within a phrase, within a phrase while writing a sentence? That’s […]
When it comes to my allegiances within Major League Baseball, it’s no secret that I’m a Chicago Cubs fan. That’s never stopped me from respecting the ability of the St. Louis Cardinals to be a contender year after year. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I don’t loathe the Cardinals, I do. But one […]
There are parts to John Feinstein’s work that are dripping with humanity. Whether it’s the snippets he shows us of Scott Elarton’s journey or the travails of John Lindsey, they come across as decidedly human beings swept up in something much greater than themselves. Feinstein’s ability to showcase the humanity of his subjects is, undoubtedly, […]
There’s a nuanced story about arm injuries in baseball. One that is full of depth and hard questions. The sort of story that a journalist can make a career out of as they plow forward and seek to uncover the truth and provide answers. Perhaps one day such a story will find its way into […]