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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.