Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.