A lovely moment yesterday: Major League Baseball Atlanta Braves  baseball player Ozzie Albies , from Curaçao , was captured on film tende...

Our youthful obsessions, how hard it is to shed them! For much of my childhood and adolescence, and well into adulthood, I followed Major L...

Yunel Escobar (Flickr / james_in_to) A little baseball news today. First: today   Major League Baseball  suspended  Toronto Blue Jays  ...

Very little posting these days, because it's exam week, and it has been a nonstrop reading extravaganza since September , though the pa...

World Series MVP David Freese The Saint Louis Cardinals , Major League Baseball 's most improbable post-season team, has won the 20...

 Chris Carpenter #29 of the St. Louis Cardinals after final out (Rob Carr/Getty Images) They did it again! The St. Louis Cardinals , b...

Albert Pujols, at potentially his final game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, September 25, 2011 (Ed Szczepanski/Getty) I'll keep ...

Suzy Allman for The New York Times Only a month ago New York Yankees shortstop, captain and longtime star Derek Jeter was maintaining ...

Today, finally, was my last day of classes! It's hard to believe that my quarter is nearly over, but it is. We discussed the final two n...

I hate to start on a down note, but today 400,000 Americans will lose their unemployment insurance , because members of the Senate GOP--fir...

Today are the Ides of March . So what, you say?  Take heed, take heed ... +++ Over the weekend Reggie H. had sent a note around, via ...

Major League Baseball teams are now in spring training, which means that the 2010 season is just weeks away. I'll write more soon, but h...

I haven't posted anything on the baseball playoffs since they began nearly a month ago. In part my silence results from the swift and ig...