Verb Plow

Yesterday I had a brief but memorable exchange with a writer. Over the past few weeks I’ve been recruiting stories for the Cool But As Yet U...

When writing history – even of baseball - the challenge is to stay true and authentic. That means refusing to place into the historical reco...

My mother used to say that when I was born I didn’t cry; I coughed. And I am alive today only because the company my father worked ...

[Note: This column first appeared in Boston Baseball and was also reprinted here in June of 2010] I can still remember the last pitch...

The list of those who have played left field for the Red Sox and won respect for their ability to play balls hit off the left field wall b...

Baseball has entered the era of the entitled. While the game has never really been rooted in the agrarian utopia of its mythology, for ...

One of the best things about being a writer is that when you are in the midst of writing you are transported to another place, the se...