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...America's bloodiest, most traumatic war in 11 1/2 hours. His account of our favorite sport takes up more than 18. It is not just a history of the game -- from Ty Cobb's vicious slides to Bob Gibson's fast ball, from Babe Ruth's records to Red Sox heartbreaks -- but also a slice of Americana that spans 150 years. The series covers the impact of the Depression and two World Wars; player-owner conflicts that go back more than a century (the reserve clause that prevented players from switching teams was hated even in the 1880s...
...BOSTON MANAGER BUTCH HOBSON ON THE EVE OF THE BASEBALL STRIKE, DESCRIBING THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE RED SOX LOCKER ROOM
...baseball player, Moe Berg belonged in the sock drawer of fame. He began his professional career in 1923 as the third baseman for the Brooklyn Robins and ended it 17 years later as the third-string catcher for the Boston Red Sox. He spent most of his playing days schmoozing and reading in dugouts and bullpens. His lifetime batting average was .243, he had only six home runs, and he was error-prone. If Berg ever stole a base, his latest biography, The Catcher Was a Spy (Pantheon; 453 pages; $24), does not mention...
That is not to say that the students do not treat their two months of Harvard like summer camp. Weekend trips to Martha's Vineyard or Cape Cod are popular excuses not to study. As are Red Sox games, or Institute of Politics speeches or even street musicians. Boston and Harvard offer so much to do, it becomes difficult to remember the "school" part...
...rainmakers and baseball sluggers can profit from it. Could El Nino be the culprit, wafting dozens of puny pop-ups into the far bleachers? Jim Kaat thinks so. "This spring we've had the wind blowing out," observes the former 20-game winner, now an announcer for the White Sox. "Wrigley Field in Chicago, Fenway Park in Boston used to be pitchers' parks in April. This year they weren...