Category: Baseball Musings

There are a lot of reasons why I like baseball. I’ve already talked about formative experiences of youth, bonding with my father, and so on. But I think there’s more to it than that, and this has to do with sports in general. Because in recent years I’ve found my interest in all sports becoming…

I never anticipated how difficult the offseason was going to be this year. It’s my first offseason since my return to baseball fanaticism, and I just had no idea it would be this hard to get through the dark months. Oh, sure, in November there were a few tidbits, like the awards and such, that…

So, how did a young fan of Reggie Jackson, the Year of the Comeback, Bucky Dent, Ron Guidry, and Thurman Munson, a woman who still counts among one of the best days of her life witnessing Dave Righetti’s Fourth of July No-Hitter live at Yankee Stadium, lose her faith in the late ’80s, forget the…