"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
We raise a toast to the real-life Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, who one hundred years ago today played in his one game for the New York Giants without coming to bat.
He went on to become a family doctor in Chisholm, Minn., and to inspire the famous character in WP Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe and the film Field of Dreams.
Young Archie's stepping over the baseline is one of the great scenes in that movie.
(According to Wikipedia, his real-life brother went on to become president of the University of North Carolina and a US Senator. Who knew?)
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