"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
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Brandon McCarthy who has always been considered somewhat messy had a dream one night that he was locked inside some courthouses being chased by a giant pretzel and when he woke up he found he had a case of vertigo which will keep him out five weeks and the White Sox think they will get by if Brian Anderson a favorite of Ozzie Guillen steps up
Boileryard Clarke, pictured above at American Memory, was a turn-of-the-century catcher with the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Senators who later became Princeton's baseball coach.
(Via the Chicago Daily News morgue at American Memory)
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Download a free book of baseball poetry by Jilly Dybka that includes, on Page 8, a remembrance of Big Ed Delahanty, mysteriously lost over Niagara Falls.
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Frank Howard lives as Elysian Fields Quarterly publisher Tom Goldstein makes a nostalgic return to RFK, the Washington ballpark of his youth.