THE PLANK OCTOBER 12, 2009
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Playoff season is here! Today, TNR celebrates America’s pastime with a selection of our best baseball pieces from the archives.
"Who's on first?" by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, September 1, 2003. How statistics geeks revolutionized baseball.
"Yankee, Stay Home," by David Greenberg, October 30, 1995. Saving urban baseball from George Steinbrenner.
"Field of Kitsch," by Nicholas Dawidoff, August 17, 1993. Is nostalgia wrecking baseball?
"Another Good Season," by Eugene McCarthy, April 22, 1978. The 1968 presidential candidate's ode to the sport.
"Baseball on Trial," by Hugh S. Fullerton, October 20, 1920. Does baseball corruption know no bounds? The White Sox players who took a dive at the World Series.
3 comments
Good writing, but remember that blog you guys did a few years ago? And the one for the World Cup? And March Madness? I miss those.
- Crock1701
October 12, 2009 at 12:55pm
A little TNR Humor here that Playoff Baseball starts when the Red Sox are eliminated? Yankees and Dodgers baseball is great, but is a little predictable. With this weather I always enjoy the Big Chill of college football and curling up on a Saturday afternoon with the fresh New Republic and some potato chips with a little Big 10 Football in the background. Those days are slowly fading as TNR goes Fortnightly and with my mail service, mostly on-line. And the colleges negoitiate all strange new channels, dates and times.
- CRS9TNR
October 12, 2009 at 7:14pm
Go Angels!
- JEFF FREY
October 13, 2009 at 1:14am