Verb Plow

Earlier today a friend asked me a question about writing and restraint, which was inspired by a post by Chris Jones on his blog http://sonof...

After Franklin P. Adams' Baseball's Sad Lexicon, I give you a version for recent Octobers: These are the saddest of possible words, ...

He’s just not that good. Not anymore. As I write this Rex Sox pitcher Josh Beckett, arguably the staff ace entering the 2010 season, has ...

This October the late John Updike’s classic New Yorker profile of Ted Williams, “Hub Bids Kid Adieu,” turns fifty years old. Recently reiss...

I can still remember the last pitch. My father was a fan, but not a big fan. No one in my family was, but baseball grabbed me when I wa...

Several months ago, in his farewell column in ESPN The Magazine, Rick Reilly noted that “My math says this column puts me over one million p...

I wrote this Chin Music column before the start of the season for Boston Baseball. After dropping three to the Orioles... I think we know n...