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Dispatches from the Treehouse: The Long Season
Joseph Horton
And by the third inning, it’s really, truly, shittily finished. “They gave us about twenty minutes of thinking we were in it,” Tim says. “Twenty minutes.”
Dispatches from the Treehouse: I Hope Your Parents Are Proud
Joseph Horton
We have not seen Mark for the rest of the season, confirming my steadfast belief that he was either a criminal masquerading as an employee or an employee who was immediately fired once his conduct towards an Access Member and celebrated Hobart columnist was discovered.
The Bottom of the Order: Every Fifth Day
Andrew Forbes
THE SEATTLE MARINERS' history is one long tale of woe studded with infrequently dazzling displays of capability, with all of it adding up to exactly zero championships. I say this as someone who has
The Bottom of the Order: Snap, Go, Fling
Andrew Forbes
The cherry and strawberry seasons have passed; the apples are reddening. Only a few games remain. A Pit Spitter lays down a bunt, and the runner on third crashes in: a perfect suicide squeeze.
The Bottom of the Order: Your 2003 Detroit Tigers
Andrew Forbes
The thing I can't wrap my head around, when it comes to the 2003 Detroit Tigers, is what it must have been like to show up to work every day. What must it have taken, as the losses mounted – up to and
Dispatches from the Treehouse: Roots and Barks and Birds (and Elaine)
Joseph Horton
For a moment, regardless of our lives, everything the light touches is warm and friendly, and we are all indeed in the same circle: Access Member Humans who love Access Member Dogs and can put up with their people for three hours because we also love baseball.
Dispatches from the Treehouse: Pride Nights
Joseph Horton
In a long baseball season, there’s always the question of whether any one game matters
The Bottom of the Order: Dooley Womack
Andrew Forbes
Horace Guy Womack was in the employ of four different Major League teams across five seasons, a serviceable bullpen righty who lost as many games as he won, but managed to keep his lifetime ERA a
The Bottom of the Order: Jim Beam
Andrew Forbes
I write this from a subterranean lair packed tight with things: books, CDs, LPs, cassettes, an old laptop or two, and a pile of baseball memorabilia. This is where I do my writing, on a desk among all
Dispatches from the Treehouse: Tuesday, April 1
Joseph Horton
We’re in line for beer and a guy in a Yankees hat turns to Tim, looks him up and down in his BoSoxery, and asks if he can buy his beers for half-price on our badge.
“Only if you say the Yankees suck,” Tim says.
Dispatches from the Treehouse: Tuesday, April 1
Joseph Horton
We’re in line for beer and a guy in a Yankees hat turns to Tim, looks him up and down in his BoSoxery, and asks if he can buy his beers for half-price on our badge.
“Only if you say the Yankees suck,” Tim says.
The Bottom of the Order: Pedro Guerrero
Andrew Forbes
More than most players, examining Guerrero's life feels like voyeurism, or like wandering hospital corridors with your head on a swivel. When he was good, he was, as James suggested, astonishingly good... But his bad times were difficult to watch, and lacked the privacy that we'd all hope would greet our worst moments.
Rub Some Dirt on It
Sam DeLeo
And yet, when it came to hitting a baseball, I always liked my odds.
Stomping Grounds
Chad Schuster
The solidity of contact is registered first in the hands. The knowledge radiates outward from there.
In the Crypt of the Cathedral
Alicia Winokur
“You can’t pee here,” Brendan tells me as I climb inside the doorway leading into the belly of the Green Monster. What he means is that you shouldn’t pee here. Manny Ramirez did once, during the
At Old Seals Stadium
Steven Kennedy
Old Seals Stadium is a shopping center now. It is a parking lot, a grocery store, a 24 Hour Fitness, a Ross Dress for Less, a Japanese dollar store. I get all my errands done at old Seals Stadium—all
Waiting For the Break
Caleb Michael Sarvis
I’m sitting on our carpet, legs crossed, beer in my crotch.
Baseball Movie
Dorothy Bendel
The girl wonders how he went from a boy with big league dreams to selling booze at a store on Long Island.
Team of Goofballs
Janet Bowdan
It's their first practice in good spring weather,
not only not raining, not cold, but full of light.
Take Addison East to Clark
Sandra Marchetti
Breathing heavily, we make it to the corner of the vacant dry cleaner’s. Still no one has rented it, I say.
Role Model
Greg Oldfield
He said that Thompson could be the fastest to hit five hundred, a first ballot Hall of Famer, but I just nodded and sipped my coffee.
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