Sport Pieces
Appearance on Last Call Baseball podcast Episode #175 (my bit starting at 18:38, after Dorian’s exciting Latin American baseball finals recaps) (streaming on Apple) (streaming on Spotify)
The classic John Updike New Yorker essay on Ted Williams, “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”
Blog post on parity in sport leagues (or the lack thereof), Who Wants a Beige Rainbow?
Designing and building the San Francisco Giants ballpark (now Oracle Park)
Field of liens: baseball stadium development, chronicling Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, the Power Broker Clash of the Gotham Titans, and the Ballad of Chávez Ravine in Los Angeles
Introduction to the Origins of the Infield Fly Rule aside (and the brilliant original essay)
Baseball antitrust cases, discussing what I call the “piñata of Supreme Court jurisprudence,” the Federal Baseball decision