Tag: Baseball

yet another Steinbrenner abomination

I knew him but never met himLong-time Manhattan Loft Guy readers will not be surprised to know that I am a big baseball fan*, given the number of occasional baseball-themed discursions over the years. I was going to write something

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Sunday diversion / baseball (Babe Ruth) and the Supreme Court (John Paul Stevens)

Yankee home opener = Tuesday at 1:05The always interesting Rob Neyer  had a Friday link to a Northwestern University magazine piece about, of all things, retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens as a life-long Cubs fan, with this question,

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happy Pitchers & Catchers!

  for those for whom this is a holiday event(And you know who you are…) Twelve teams reported yesterday, with first work-out today. Teams report as late as February 22 (what’s up with Cleveland??). If you must have details on

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R I P Herbert Watnik 9.21.1921 to 11.25.2008

  Personal note here, that feels appropriate to ‘express’ on *my* blog though this must surely violate someone’s notions of etiquette …. My father-in-law died last evening at 10:21 PM of (in my lay terms) complications from pneumonia after having

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