Archive for Fun

Please grant my wishes, Santa, and make baseball bearable again.

The day Frankenstein’s Monster terrorized a catcher.

The rowdy adventures of two long-ago Astros, and other baseball miscreants.

With a blast from the past, some old baseball writing inspires some new baseball writing.

Just like baseball, the bat flip is a simple thing that becomes wonderfully complex.

From Nancy Faust to Kendrick Lamar, A-Ha to Bob Marley, and The Righteous Brothers to Metallica, we love music at the ballpark.

Name your player! The recent Players Weekend gives us a chance to do exactly that.

A fan’s odyssey reawakens his love of baseball.

How the practice of firing free stuff into stadium seats became a thing.

Things have gone horribly wrong.