Baseball, Hockey, Uncategorized
I may be living in the Middle East, but I’m still a dyed-in-the wool New Yorker. And it’s a rare moment for a New York sports fan of my persuasion: both of my favorite teams are in first place. That would be the New York Rangers (hockey) and the New York...
Baseball, Politics, Sports
Major League baseball’s free agent-signing season began today, with the Yankees making a monster offer to the Milwaukee Brewers’ pitcher C. C. Sabathia. They’re apparently also planning big offers to free-agent pitchers Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett....
Baseball, Politics, Sports
Always on the lookout for connections between baseball and politics, I was happy to see Jon Stewart mocking both the Obama and McCain campaigns for pandering to baseball fans. The most fair-weather of these fair-weather fans turns out to be . . . well, Sarah, of...
Baseball, Politics, Reading, Sports
I’ve just started reading Simon Schama’s latest book, The American Future: A History, which arrived today from amazon.co.uk. I got interested in the book when a friend sent me this a link to a review of the book by Niall Ferguson in the Financial Times....