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“Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.”

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Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip…

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By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

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The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.

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For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.

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The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized…

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Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball…

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For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But,…

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In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and…

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There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.

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Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal…

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Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

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I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

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Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone.

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