Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

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

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.

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

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

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.