Trump’s World Series wind-up
Last night, the President abruptly announced that he was suspending trade negotiations with Canada
Baseball
Friday
Tuesday
How Major League Baseball lost its soul
Homestand is the most anti-MLB but pro-sandlot and hick-circuit baseball book ever published
Thursday
Baseball may be trapped in a two-party system
The sport braces for another Dodgers-Yankees scrum, a duopoly less about parity than power
Monday
Which GOAT really is the greatest?
From DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak in 1941 to the ‘Tiger Slam,’ a look back at the true sporting marvels of the ages
Monday
The new worst team in baseball
Perhaps the Chicago White Sox’s swift decline was not the result of a calculated scheme but rather a classic case of Murphy’s Law
Wednesday
Letters from Spectator readers, June 2024
Ballots, baseball and blue-collar jobs
Tuesday
The story of Vince Maney
That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
Sunday
My biggest regrets
Mine are for things undone, unmade, untold. They’re hardly earth-shattering, but still…
Friday
Is Shohei Ohtani the GOAT?
It has been more than a century since baseball had such a double threat
Monday
Rage against the baseball machine
I have finally encountered an umpire I would despise, disparage, spit upon, kick, and, yes, kill
Friday
Have the LA Dodgers struck out?
Plus: Top Texas lawyers to lead Ken Paxton impeachment
Tuesday
Watching baseball as Seattle crumbles
The area around the Mariners’ ballpark is characterized by an intense squalor
Friday
Democrat flips the bird at the congressional baseball game
Pure Democratic athleticism
Republicans crush Democrats at the congressional baseball game
And Cockburn was there, overpriced lager in hand
Saturday
Little league keeps me sane
Just good old American tradition
Monday
The Biden administration hates you more than China
The truth behind the toothless Olympic boycott
Thursday
In defense of brilliant idiot athletes
Conservatives furious over their dumb political opinions should sit back and appreciate what they’re good at
Friday
The racist Cleveland Guardians baseball team must be renamed
Is it really appropriate for Cleveland to honor these imperialistic statues of cis white men?
Wednesday
Major League Baseball goes dark on Cuba
The league has no excuse for dodging the political issues of the day
Sunday
The all-American pleasure of minor league baseball
Our logo is a bald eagle with a baseball clutched improbably in its beak
