Reading Time: 5 minutes The bitter rivalry that changed Canadian baseball
Tag: Baseball
The enduring allure of baseball
Reading Time: 4 minutes One sports enthusiast’s perspective on the timeless appeal of baseball
Oakland no longer willing to play the stadium extortion game
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Oakland A’s are looking to leave Oakland for Vegas, after failing to extort more money from the city
World Baseball Classic was great in ’23
Reading Time: 3 minutes Japan vs. USA World Baseball Classic championship game was one of the best baseball games in terms of intensity, drama and pure fun
Windsor bookstore’s highly successful venture into publishing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Biblioasis has recently released two new books, one on baseball, the other on the origins of Covid
Baseball showed how racism can be overcome
Reading Time: 3 minutes Racism is pointless and will inevitably fail, as it did in baseball. But it is part of our history
Major League Baseball has a sexual harassment problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes What constitutes manhood in sports culture is archaic. As if the sports world has been frozen in time – Neanderthal time
If a team name is offensive, change it without delay
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why is the Cleveland baseball team waiting until 2022 to make the change? Let the healing begin now
Charley Pride knocked down country music’s racial barriers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Audiences took a while to warm up to a black country musician. He wasn’t promoted in this fashion and photos didn’t accompany his early singles
The smartest things ever said about sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite what Vince Lombardi said, if winning’s the only thing in sports, you’re going to be miserable a lot of the time