April 20, 2019 | Dispatches
"Talkin' Bout Practice": quitters
Alyssa Oursler
The first doctor who called said I couldn’t play. The scan showed stress fractures and the only remedy was rest. It would... more
April 19, 2019 | BASEBALL, The Bottom of the Order
The Bottom of the Order: A Photograph of Gaylord Perry Being Investigated for Foreign Substances
Andrew Forbes
Gaylord Perry toiled for twenty-two seasons in the majors, and the look on his face suggests it was hard toil indeed.
April 18, 2019 | BASEBALL, Poetry
The Slugger, The Ace, The Shortstop, The Catcher, The Pinch Hitter
Jose Hernandez Diaz
The solitude. In the summer, I dine. On hot dogs. And fast balls. Go Dodgers!
April 18, 2019 | BASEBALL, Nonfiction
If You Build It Baseball Dads Will Come
Bailey Gaylin Moore
The first time this happened, I sighed when he walked away, squinting my eyes to see if he had a wedding ring.
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Saul Stories
Elizabeth Ellen
"I didn't want to ever be outside of this moment. I knew at some point I would look at the picture I'd just taken and feel an overwhelming sense of loss. I thought as long as we could manage to stay inside this particular hotel room, to avoid our phones and every person with whom we'd ever come into contact, we would continue to feel whole. We were revolutionaries, goddamnit. These were our accumulation of beautiful moments. Before the world fractured us. I don't expect you to understand how I became Brad Pitt in that moment, how we all just flew along down the highway. Bandits. Ex-patriots. In love with this countryside, if not this country. Paper Moon. The Last Picture Show. All of this shot in black and white. Only the final scene in color."
Legs Get Led Astray
Chloe Caldwell
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Dualities
Jason Phoebe Rusch
Jason Phoebe Rusch is a queer writer from the Chicago suburbs. His full-length debut Dualities explores gender and patriarchy from the perspective of a man who was socialized and is currently still read as a woman. He is interested in complication and nuance and messy human failing, his own and that of others.
