Verb Plow
Where I turn words over
Saturday, December 23, 2023
A Little (True) Christmas Story
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Christmas can be stressful, and even more so when you’re a toddler not quite three years old and it’s the first Christmas you can really an...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
THE YEARS' BEST SPORTS WRITING
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A couple things about The Years’ Best Sports Writing, the new annual collection of sports writing. For one, I’m thrilled that a collecti...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
WRITING TIGER GIRL
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You're researching another book, a long time ago. You come across a headline, two headlines, ten, a hundred. And two names: Tiger Girl a...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Cousin Johannes
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(This column first appeared in the July edition of Boston Baseball) My older brother wasn’t much of a ballplayer, which I guess is rea...
Monday, June 10, 2019
One Word at a Time
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(from Boston baseball, June 2019) You’ve seen him at the ballpark, an hour or two or three or four before the games in khaki s...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
SWINGING, SINGING TONY C
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This story first appeared in the May issue of Boston Baseball There was more to it than “Little Red Scooter.” While it on...
Thursday, April 18, 2019
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OUCH!!! or Baseball Hurts By Glenn Stout And they say football is dangerous. Now that I’m entering the later innings, let me tel...
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