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I didn’t go baseball crazy until the late 1970s, so I missed all the hoopla by a handful of years. But anyone who knows a little about the g...

Bill Walton was mostly before my time in the worlds of college and pro basketball, but he was so much bigger than life that it was impossibl...

If you grew up in the St. Louis area in the 1980s like I did, then chances are you'll never have a more favorite Major League Baseball t...

I attended my first DC Beer Fest at Nationals Park this weekend and the coolest things might not have even had to do with beer. We got to go...

Brooks Robinson, it's pretty easy to argue, is the greatest defensive third baseman in baseball history. He won 16 Gold Glove Awards, se...

Will Ferrell stretches the limits of comedy just a little bit with Ferrell Takes the Field, currently airing on HBO.  It's a mockum...

Sixty-eight years ago today. One of the most monumental days not just in baseball history, but in all of American history. Jackie Robins...

I'm pretty lucky to have experienced three World Series championships so far in my lifetime. 1982. 2006. 2011.

I haven't been blogging as much as normal. And since a picture tells a few words, perhaps it's easiest to give you an update of how ...

The great thing about having a kid is that you can still find ways to be selfish. Or at least still find ways to spend money on consumer goo...

Enjoying day one at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Madison, Wisconsin. I wore myself out biking 30 to 40 miles this...

That's really all that needs to be said. Courtesy of Deadspin - a great sports blog.