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Baseball

Sports Health

What Tyler Skaggs Left Behind

On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.

Marin Fader Bleacher Report Sep 2020 20min Permalink

History Sports

The Hidden Queer History Behind "A League of Their Own"

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

Britni de la Cretaz Narratively May 2018 15min Permalink

Best Article Crime Sports

The Hero of Goodall Park

When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.

Tom Junod ESPN Jul 2020 Permalink

Sports

Notes On the Narrative Conundrum of Baseball Fandom

Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.

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Rolf Potts on the Longform Podcast

Rolf Potts Medium Oct 2016 15min Permalink

Best Article Sports

The Art of Letting Go

In American baseball, flipping your bat is frowned upon. In South Korea, it’s an art.

Mina Kimes ESPN Oct 2016 20min Permalink

Sports

The 30-Year Mystery Of Don Mattingly's Birthdate

Happy 59th! Or is it 58th? Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly’s birthday.

Sam Miller ESPN Apr 2020 15min Permalink

Sports

How Beto Calavera Got His Name

The families Dodger Stadium removed.

Eric Nusbaum Vice Mar 2020 20min Permalink

Sports

The Umpire's Sons

A Major League umpire learns that his children share the same deadly genetic disease.

Lisa Pollak The Baltimore Sun Dec 1996 20min Permalink

Crime Sports

"You Guys Are Scaring Me"

A woman told police she was raped by three New York Mets. They were never charged.

Daniel Engber Slate Jan 2020 35min Permalink

Sports

My Life As A Minor League Baseball Clown

I cannot burden my family with worry, because to be a burden worse than not being family at all. Like everyone else, I came to the ballpark to get away from something.

Malt Schlizmann Deadspin Oct 2019 15min Permalink

Sports World

Home and Away: American Ballplayers Are Flooding the Mexican League

Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.

Joseph Bien-Kahn Gen Sep 2019 Permalink

Best Article Sports Religion

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.

George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Apr 1985 25min Permalink

Reprints Sports Sponsored

The Interior Stadium

The joys of watching baseball.

Roger Angell The Summer Game Feb 1971 20min Permalink

Crime

The Time Bandits of Southern California

The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.

Amy Wallace GQ Oct 2018 25min Permalink

Crime Sports

What Happened to the Houston Astros' Hacker?

How prison changed the former pro scout.

Ben Reiter Sports Illustrated Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Sports

The Yankees

A profile of the postwar Bronx Bombers.

Fortune Jul 1946 30min Permalink

Sports

The Ballpark that Never Was

Things might have been very different for the Chicago White Sox

Dayn Perry CBS Sports Apr 2018 30min Permalink

Sports

Thus Spake Gary Keith & Ron

Riding along with the Mets broadcast trio, the main reason to watch the team.

By Devin Gordon New York Times Magazine Sep 2018 20min Permalink

Sports

How Chinese Baseball Came to North Texas

Hanging out with the AirHogs of Grand Prairie.

Eric Benson Texas Monthly Aug 2018 10min Permalink

Best Article Sports

What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?

Ted Williams grows old.

Richard Ben Cramer Esquire Jun 1986 1h Permalink

Sports World

Serie Nacional

Nothing can match Cuban post-season baseball fever.

Joseph Swide Victory Journal Aug 2018 10min Permalink

Politics

The 9 Minutes that Almost Changed America

How the Congressional baseball shooting didn’t become the deadliest political assassination in American history.

Kate Nocera, Lissandra Villa Buzzfeed May 2018 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Having a Catch With Dad Is Much Harder Than Field of Dreams Makes It Out To Be"

Baseball and complicated father/son relationships.

Patrick Walczy Hobart Apr 2018 Permalink

Best Article Sports

The Silent Season of a Hero

The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.

Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1966 35min Permalink

Sports

When Winter Never Ends

The twilight of future Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki.

Wright Thompson ESPN Mar 2018 20min Permalink

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