Word: donning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget the World Series. Baseball fans don't care about that. Forget too about winning records and promising, young teams. They only have to do with today. Who cares about today? The baseball fan knows only one thing counts: yesterday.
If only you could see a game in which the key players weren't will Clark or Jose Canseco but Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle. If only you could have witnessed Don Larsen's perfect game or watched Ted William's perfect swing. If only you could have seen a...
The myths of yesterday haunt every baseball game today. The Cubs, we all knew, never really had a shot at the pennant this year--not because Clark or Kevin Mitchell overwhelmed the young team. No, Don Zimmer was simply leading his team to its tragic, but, alas, inevitable fate. And...
In its truest sense, baseball appeals to each of us in our desire to go home, to have a past that we can be secure in. Baseball fans, though, don't just want to return home; they want to suffocate it.
If baseball's past was grander, it is only because we don't remember it. Babe Ruth was traded. The Black Sox scandal was not fiction. And the Red Sox and Cubs have come closer to championships than a lot of other teams.