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...that's in plain view: the World Series. More specifically, Barry Bonds, who in the world of baseball is so well known, and so highly regarded, that the question as the Series begins is not so much "Will the Angels (or Giants) win?" as it is "Will the Angels pitch to Barry Bonds?" The San Francisco Giants outfielder, by far the best hitter in the game, is a kind of black hole, a gravitational force that warps everything around him, and all the talk of the baseball world this week centered on whether the Angels would simply give Bonds...
Second, the black-and-white photos that pepper the screen during my mood movie’s opening credits reminded me why I rooted so hard for the Yanks and lived and died with each pitch for so many years—baseball is the best fan’s game out there. It has the best history, characters, moments, and the deepest cultural impact of any sport...
...just ahead of the boredom and the crying jags that threaten to crest over them like a wave--but just behind the sense of happiness and belonging they're sure awaits them in the next strip bar or hotel lobby. Eggers' strengths as a writer are real: his funny, pitch-perfect dialogue; the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will's thoughts (he compares the workings of his brain to "a toddler in a room full of new guests"); and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions (with the sentence "His socks were white and Van Horned...
...placid skies on Sunday afternoon belie the fevered pitch in Quincy House Courtyard as two titans of the tiles met to see which Harvard student can best spell long and/or obscure words out of tiny white squares. A stoic Thomas, clad in a blue-and-gray shirt and khakis, shakes hands with a fidgety Washkowitz. Drawing letters from the bag to determine who goes first, Washkowitz wins. Shifting in his seat, he squints in the sunlight and scrutinizes his rack, placing VOID on the board. Thomas quickly counters with MAT, using the “A” to morph...
...Crimson has scored only five goals in its last six games, and the team is still searching for its rhythm on the offensive end of the pitch...