Kansas erected a life-sized bronze statue of Jackie Robinson—the player who broke the color barrier in major league baseball—in McAdam’s Park. 2) This year, on January 25th, after midnight, a couple of assholes cut that statue off at the ankles, loaded it onto a pickup, and drove o...
Brendan Durfee, C: It’s not often that Draft picks from July are tabbed to get extra reps in the Fall League in October and November, but the chance to get the 23-year-old Durfee more looks behind the plate was too good of an opportunity to pass up for San Diego. Nabbed in the ...
That said, today I stumbled across an article that caught my attention. It was titledHow to ride your bicycle slower and love it. It surprised me for a couple of reasons. First, because it never occurred to me that anybody would ever need to learnhowto ride more slowly. I mean, you ...
Creative Editionsbundles up forMother Winterby James Christopher Carroll, a poetic personification of the quiet wonders of the winter season;I Spy with My Curious Eyeby Emilia Zebrowska, illus. by Susan Reagan, inspired by the kids’ game, challenging readers to locate the adjectives in the boo...
He was born in New York City in the mid-1890s with a passion for art. His love for art ran deep. He took art classes at the New York School of Art and later studied at the National Academy of Design. Later, he transferred to The Art Students League, which prepared him for his ...
There’s nothing quite like a baseball field–that green and brown and white. We’re right behind the first base dugout. For me, it’s a beautiful, balmy night for baseball, but I wasn’t born on the Ice Planet Hoth. It isn’t such a good night for the Mets. The pitcher gets ...
The Angels didn’t choke away the American League West championship--they simply and graciously threw themselves upon the sacrificial altar for the good of the game. Threw themselves up there so that baseball could be saved by the Seattle Mariners. ...
learned earlier:sometimes you want to write things you will never get to write. Desire is a tricky thing. “The heart wants what it wants,” but sometimes it wants things that aren't good for it (like french fries) or that it can never achieve (like becoming a major league baseball ...
We wear more tags than kids sent off to camp. Films of Americans in public (at a baseball game, say) until as recently as the 1960s suggest the crowd is under the sway of an alien force. The women wear blouses and skirts or dresses or, more formal still, suits—and hats, hats, ...
as the two kids dart about trying to avert the misunderstandings regarding their "relationship." It's also a chance for some brilliant acting on part of the lead characters—their back-and-forth exchanges are as biting as ever, but it's Taiga who steals the show when she takes out her ...