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We Americans have been instructed to burst our buttons with pride over Artemis II’s drive-by of the Moon. But out here in cratering America, far from Mission Control, we remain buttoned-up. This is not due to our skinflint nature or lack of imagination; nah, it’s just that Big Science – “corporate socialism,” as the late
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FanDuel and DraftKings ads spice the early spring airwaves, robots deliver their unimpeachable verdicts on human actions and a family of four shells out 500 bucks for parking and tickets to attend a game. Major League Baseball has returned! At least this year MLB scheduled its Opening Day game – a March 25 interleague (yech!)
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It’s strange interviewing a friend who is dying, but Karl Zinsmeister is at peace. I met Karl in Washington, DC, in the spring of 1981, when we two Upstate New York hicks were new to the staff of Senator Pat Moynihan. The first thing I learned about him was that he and his girlfriend (and
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Ah, the indignities of age. Over the past year I’ve suffered significant hearing loss. “Huh?” has become my favorite word and I’ve developed a strange new respect for the loonies who hear voices. Aspiring to stoicism, I informed Lucine, my wife, “When I hit 60 I figured that I was entering a stage in which
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I once knew a man so cheap he would call my dad to report that he’d found a nickel on the pavement of the local racetrack’s parking lot. I don’t know if Jim would have stooped to conquer a penny as well – I wouldn’t put it past him – but I like to think
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The Morgan Affair in 1826 led to the first third party in American political history
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I suppose I should hate this city, the Typhoid Mary of cultural imperialism
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A brilliant meteor blazed through the Summer Triangle early in the show, eliciting oohs and aahs and apolitical cheers
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Since democracy is dead in New York, I write in dead persons
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Technically we are moving south, though I doubt we qualify as snowbirds
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Despite the multitudinous sins committed against the game and its culture, I’m once again giving it the old college try
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The first spade hit the dirt on July 4, 1817, near the appositely named Rome, New York
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The folksinger’s lifeboat capsized far too soon
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Homestand is the most anti-MLB but pro-sandlot and hick-circuit baseball book ever published
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Skipper was hyperalert, Russ vigilant but pensive
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I went on a weeklong comets-and-asteroids-destroy-our-world binge
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Like so many intrusions upon our liberties, it was introduced to America by war
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You never know when or wherefrom these pitches are coming. I doubt that even Oscar Wilde could hit much above .500 in this league
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I don’t know where the time has gone
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The wonderfully idiosyncratic sporting variant achieved extraordinary popularity in rural Iowa
