I was a big baseball fan in the early 1990s when Bobby Valentine was manager of the Texas Rangers. I was recently on an internet rabbit hole search and was looking up old players and whatever happened to them. First was George Brett. Then I thought of my old super crush Bobby Brower. Here is…
I just saw Hell or High Water last night and rate it highly. This film was one of the better ones I have seen in 2016, and I haven’t seen that many. How can you go wrong with Jeff Bridges? How? I don’t think you can. He is in that loveable curmudgeon era of his…
—Night Baseball, Marjorie Phillips, 1951 or 1952, oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 36 in., The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. This painting is another one of my favorites. Marjorie Acker Phillips, wife of Duncan Phillips, founder of the The Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C., painted this picture of Joe DiMaggio at bat during a…
The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. The boys of summer. The field of dreams. The smell of peanuts and stale beer. The stadium announcer’s introductions. Who’s gonna sing the national anthem? Who’ll throw out the first pitch? These are some of the images that I looked forward to every spring. Every…
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