This is April 14, the day in 1912 that the world’s biggest metaphor hit an iceberg. On board, John Jacob Astor, the fourth by that name in the family dynasty, was heard to say: “I rang for ice, but this is ridiculous.” The Boston Red Sox had just built a new ballpark that would […]
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TITANIC ILLUSIONS
April 14, 2012Kill The Umpire!
September 29, 2011Two teams, the Red Sox and the Braves, have suffered colossal collapses and lose playoff spots for this baseball year. Due to career mobility, mine is a serialized fan history, from the Cardinals to the Braves and Diamondbacks, and in these latter days I root for the dearly departed Sox from Beantown. So […]
Despicable Them: Baseball Strikes Out
April 4, 2011Ah, just listen to the crack of the bat and the roar of the crowd. But it’s not a game anymore, only a newly-minted circle of the super-rich whose teams are wagered on in office betting pools and imagined to be gods by children. Kids always felt that way about their hardball heroes, back to […]
Ichabod's Kin 