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• In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as…
• There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly,…
• When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.
• In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York…
• On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and…
• He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many…
• Indianapolis proved to be the perfect Super Bowl city, accommodating in the truest sense of the word.
• Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great,…
• Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman…
• Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was…
• There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom…
• Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision,…

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