Sport
July 28, 2011
Staff Pick: Baseball Playbook 1
by Patrick Brown
“You might have to coach Little League in a few years,” my father told me, handing me a strange, plain book. My son was a week old. It would be at least two years before he would learn to throw a cut fastball (and probably another year or two before he had any real command of the pitch).
November 24, 2010
The Hot Stove Report: A Parody 3
by Jacob Lambert
Now that the 2010 season has ended, it’s time to look at the off-season transactions that will shape next year’s division rivalries and pennant races. Here, then, are a few of baseball’s most notable available free agents.
November 22, 2010
Knockout Reading 5
by Jesse Tangen-Mills
Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson and Gay Talese, all wrote extensively about pugilism, but none of these portrayals of real life boxers nurse a bookworm’s dream of being a toughened fighter like fiction.
November 3, 2010
Gay Talese’s The Silent Season of a Hero is Sports Writing That’s Destined to Last 0
by Bill Morris
Even more fascinating to Talese than failure is the murky downslope of greatness, the twilight of storied careers, the ways stars must struggle to get their bearings after the cheering stops.
June 28, 2010
World Cup Reading: Books, Beers, Bars 5
by Jesse Tangen-Mills
It’s all a question of the right book for the right occasion. For some people, that occasion will be at a bar where you’ll hear the zizzing of vuvuzelas, the shouting of national anthems, the thumping of a jabulani. It’s hard to justify spending hours in front of the screen, drinking beer no less, unless, of course, you bring a book.
May 25, 2010
The Millions Interview: Tom McAllister 2
by Patrick Brown
McAllister became known as “the ultimate Philly guy.” No wonder, considering he grew up in a row house, attended La Salle University, teaches at Temple, and even worked in a cheesesteak shop. But a person cannot be so reduced, as he explores in his new memoir.