Verb Plow

A lot of chores just got green lighted. And it’s all Josh Beckett’s fault. Beckett and A-Gone’s. And Crawford’s. The past two seasons t...

In the spring of 1985 I was twenty-seven years old, four years out of college with a degree in Creative Writing and working at the Bosto...

Each loss makes the game so clear. For both the players and the fan defeat is the great test of this game. Every player from Little Leag...

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...