Tag Archives: baseball

Sporting Men No. 5

June 18 08

The shades, the ’stache, the mouth: Mr. October, Reggie Jackson (1946-).
(wiki Mr. October)
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Sporting Men No. 1.

May 29 08

Sandy Koufax, left-handed, Jewish pitcher for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1955-1966).
Sandy famously refused to pitch the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur.
He also had a lifetime ERA of 2.76, which is a mean feat in and of itself.
(wiki)

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baseball and the human condition

April 1 08

I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to baseball. The local newspaper tells me that spring is in the air, spring training has begun, spring is in our step, and spring has sprung. All across that great nation which straddles our southern flank, sporting fans are spending their days engrossed in the [...]

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A posthuman Barry Bonds

August 30 07

Too many people have blogged about Barry Bonds and The Record already.
Since I am hardly a baseball fan, I gave little time to following the run-up to Barry’s 756th home run early in August 2007. I kept up appearances with the family (all sportive types), and spoke once or twice with a close friend [...]

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