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Carl Yastrzemski’s kielbasa
Back in June, I told the story of how my childhood wish for an autograph from my hero, Carl Yastrzemski, was finally fulfilled by way of a circuitous combination of some long ago promotional...
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Juan Beniquez
According to the Gods: a 2011 Team-By-Team Preview Boston Red Sox Three days ago, I ended a cell phone call that had lasted an hour and a half and stood in the atrium of the corporate office building...
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Carlos Quintana
I’ve got an essay on Carlos Quintana over at Pitchers & Poets as part of that great site’s “1990s First Basemen Week,” which also includes contributions from Jonah Keri, Joe Posnanski, Will...
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Luis Tiant
Last Wednesday, my wife and I took our son to the doctor for his two-month checkup. Two months seems too insubstantial. Parents of older children tell me to enjoy every moment because “it goes by so...
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Mike Torrez
How Strange the Design Three But I never finished telling you about Mike Torrez. That’s my tribute to the first sentence of the Denis Johnson story, “The Other Man,” which begins “But I never finished...
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Tim Wakefield
This morning I got up at 5 as usual, even though it’s Saturday. The days don’t open out wide like they used to, so if I want to write I have to get up early every day and get to it. But the baby was...
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Dave Sisler
Tour Guide Pitcher and Sky #2 The primary focus of this tour is a small unofficial series of baseball cards within the 1976 series of Topps baseball cards. We have seen the first of these cards...
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Win Remmerswaal
(This post originally appeared on The Classical.) The Other Day The other day, I came to. I looked around, blinking. I was in a supermarket. This kind of thing is happening more. How did I get here?...
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Luis Tiant
I spent some time recently writing an essay on Luis Tiant for a forthcoming compilation. It was impossible. I always feel like I fail whenever I try to write about something I really love. There is...
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reasons
I intended for this photo to be right side up in this fucking post. I also intended before starting to write the post to Google the words “Sweet Jane” but I hadn’t slept much and was up early and had...
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Dick Pole
When I was a little boy living from pack to pack in rural Vermont in the 1970s, I knew my dream would one day come true of having a card from my collection serve as the backdrop for a riff session by...
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David Ortiz
I remember watching Yaz’s last regular-season at-bat. The Red Sox were bad that year, most of the superstars from my childhood gone. There weren’t going to be any postseason at-bats. I watched the...
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Last Hurrahs
How do things end? This is still in question for David Ortiz, who is set to get at least a few more at-bats in the playoffs. His final regular season at-bat is now a matter of historical record, at...
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Dustin Pedroia
Jack was holding his bat in one hand and looking toward one of the corners of our carpeted basement. I stood a few feet away, ready to start lobbing him underhand pitches. Jack usually can’t wait to...
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Bill Lee
“Baseball will survive . . . everything because the game is played by kids.” – Bill Lee I want to be Bill Lee when I grow up. Or maybe I’m already on the wrong track with this line of thinking, this...
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Bob Bailey
I hate, among other things, and in no particular order Bucky Dent fascism football America (the band, not the country, which I love and hate) saying the word “poop” (the way you have to pop your lips...
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Bronson Arroyo
All the stars are gone but one. Morning breaks, here comes the sun. Through the night, now sinking fast. Show me something built to last. –“Built to Last,” Hunter/Garcia Somewhere in my twenties I saw...
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Rogelio Moret
Baseball cards freeze things in place. I guess I first sensed this in 1974. I was six and learning that nothing stays frozen in place. We’d moved to a new state, away from my father. I found I liked...
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