Ball Three
What is the Scooter Libby trial really about? In announcing the indictment of the vice-presidential aide in October 2005, the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald attempted to make it all perfectly...
View ArticleA-Rod Nation
Max Boot, contentions contributor, told us on Saturday that his unfulfilled passion is sports writing. So is mine. In his post he revealed his devotion to an inferior sport, football. I, on the other...
View ArticleRoger Clemens
Among the many baseball players named in last month’s Mitchell Report as steroid users, one name stood out in particular: Roger Clemens. According to the report, sports trainer Brian McNamee first...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Last Night
1. John McCain has ended up where, at the start of this process, he was supposed to be: as the presumptive nominee of his party. But what a wild, strange journey it’s been. He was the frontrunner in...
View ArticleIt Matters Not Who Won Or Lost
George Will distainfully observes: “Women, or at least those whose consciousnesses have been properly raised, supposedly think that the impatience being expressed about the protracted futility of...
View ArticleSic Transit Dodd
The decision of Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd to avoid the humiliation of being defeated for re-election later this year may well help the Democrats hold his seat. It was more than likely that...
View ArticleHigh Taxes Drive Away Industries … and Boxers
The lesson that high taxes hurt business and, by definition, the communities in which those businesses reside is one that is proved every day by high-tax states like New York. That this applies not...
View ArticleLeftist Soccer Agony: U.S. Victory Equals Jingoism
You would think that leftists who hope that American sports exceptionalism is breaking down in the face of World Cup fever would be thrilled by the big American victory in a game against Algeria. And...
View ArticleBobby Thomson
As a historian, I have always been fascinated by fame and how unfairly the gods of chance bestow it. Andy Warhol said that in this media age, everyone is famous for 15 minutes. But some people, the...
View ArticleRE: RE: Obama from the Oval Office
Peter Robinson, who certainly knows how to write a presidential speech, goes through Obama’s Oval Office address, grouping it into general categories. A sample from each: Incoherent: … The president...
View ArticleThanks for Proving the Obvious
Nate Silver, the liberal political blogger, has built a reputation as a valuable writer who has successfully transferred to politics the research and analysis skills he learned in the field of baseball...
View ArticleThe Mensches of Baseball
The lead story today at Jewish Ideas Daily is “Covering the Bases,” by Michael Arkush–a report on the February 27 “Night of Jewish Baseball” at the American Jewish Historical Society. At the event,...
View ArticleBaseball Springs Eternal
This week marks the opening of another baseball season, the long wait ’til this year finally over for the 29 teams that didn’t win the World Series last year. Baseball is the only sport that produces...
View ArticleDon’t Make Excuses for A-Rod
It is hard to work up much sympathy for Alex Rodriguez, one of the highest-paid athletes on the planet (his 10-year contract with the Yankees is worth $275 million), who is now contesting a suspension...
View ArticleStorm Clouds and Baseball’s Humble Soul
There is a wonderful pair of scenes in the second episode of Aaron Sorkin’s criminally underappreciated TV series Sports Night, a fictionalized rendering of the production of nightly sports shows like...
View ArticleOpening Game in Zion
It’s baseball season (with or without fans in the seats), which can mean only one thing: a Throwback Thursday post featuring an April 1949 COMMENTARY article by William Schack on the very first display...
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