"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Casey Stengel was Warren Spahn's manager when the pitcher began his career with the Braves in the early '40s and ended it with the Mets in the mid-'60s. "I played for Casey before and after he was a genius," Spahn said.
Here are a few more pics of Stengel from his Boston (NL) days: Relaxing, sagaciously, at Spring Training * Yawping * Mid-rhubarb
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UPDATE: Why did cricket take hold across much of the British Commonwealth but not in America? Class-consciousness, two Harvard sociologists maintain in an op-ed piece in the NYT.