Moneyball is not your grandpa’s baseball movie. Even if you don’t know a fly ball from a snowball and couldn’t care less how the great American pastime turned into the great American religion, this is a great American movie that will leave you cheering. Read More
Booing Johnny Damon—what a bunch of classless ingrates.
As I remember, Johnny Damon was playing for the Oakland A’s when the Red Sox took him, by giving him a ton more money, ripping off a small-market club. He came to Boston and put in three great years. He didn’t complain, didn’t hotdog, just played Read More
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, by Jose Canseco. Regan Books, 290 pages, $25.95.
Before the release of Jose Canseco’s Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, the word most often heard in conversations about the book was “credibility.” As in: The author’s got Read More
New York, New York
As the aftershocks of Sept. 11 continue to rattle the country, one mightexpect
that Americans would downgrade New York City on their list of most desirable
places to live. Images of a city under siege-its downtown partially in ruins,
its mailrooms possibly contaminated with anthrax-have become nightly fare on
national Read More
For those who trust that the New York Yankees are a team of
destiny, the first weekend of the World Series was a cruel shock. With their
fourth straight champion- ship in sight, the Bronx Bombers flew out to the
Arizona desert and promptly got Yankee’d by the Diamondbacks. There’s no other
term for it. Read More
