Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

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

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

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