Years ago, I had an interesting conversation with Bob Fontaine, a baseball lifer and general manager of the San Diego Padres at the time. We were watching 30 or 40...
Since I was a 12-year-old, I have hated the New York Yankees. Deeply. Passionately. Viscerally. This dark emotion was born in the last two days of the 1949 baseball season...
The attempt to manufacture excitement is an unfortunate trend in major league baseball. In big league ballparks, monstrous electronic scoreboards suddenly light up and instruct fans to MAKE NOISE!!!!! as...