Archive for the 'Commentary' Category

We can choose our fates, or so they say. If that’s true, why would anyone choose baseball?

Crediting an oft-criticized player with what he accomplished.

America’s one true original artform might be its Pastime’s ideal score.

How Andy Weltlinger and his Baltimore Urban Baseball Association are rejuvenating the game in Baltimore City.

An otherwise inconsequential evening proved to be quite important for this man.

What if baseball had broadened its appeal earlier?

What other avenues of advocacy are open to minor leaguers?

The video game had important representational value for those who played it.

Seattle embraces an aesthetic meant to evoke an earlier era that never existed.

A question, posed at a party, inspires a search for an explanation.