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James never forgets that baseball is supposed to be fun. His Historical Abstract, a playful decade-by-decade romp through baseball's past, picks the best and worst in many unlikely categories, including the logical selection of former Pitcher Don Mossi as the ugliest major leaguer of all time. Along the way, James explains why insulting nicknames, like that of Hugh ("Losing Pitcher") Mulcahy, tended to disappear in the '40s, how the coach's box evolved as an attempt to reduce violence in the days when baseball was a blood sport, and why the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman...
...were old enough. But I don't think they were aware of how acutely we were aware of their unhappiness -- not violence, just a pervading unhappiness you could cut with a fork or a spoon at dinner every night. For years I thought the word "divorce" was the ugliest in the English language. Sound traveled from bedroom to bedroom, and the word came seeping through the heating ducts. My sisters and I would stay up at night, listening to our parents argue, hiding from that word. And when it traveled into our room, absolute abject panic set in. My sisters...
Flanked by the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and the U.S. Court of International Trade, Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan is one of the ugliest public spaces in America. Everything, from its coarse buildings -- which look the way institutional disinfectant smells -- to its dry, littered fountain, begs for prolonged shiatsu with a wrecker's ball. But since no one is going to do that, would the next best thing be to put a Major Sculpture by a Major American Artist there...
...country to react to a John Paul visit with violent physical hostility. However, it was generated by a fringe assortment of anarchists, homosexuals and punk youths. Street brawls by youths in the tiny nation have become such a fixture that the Dutch hardly seem to notice them anymore. The ugliest episode began in Utrecht with protesters who had assembled under a legal permit. Several dozens of the 1,000 marchers sang, "We're going to kill, kill, kill the Pope tonight," while pelting police with rocks, bottles and smoke bombs. At one point, a bottle, cans and eggs were hurled...
Obviously there is a moral imperative to aid Africa. Rich nations cannot sit atop stockpiles of unused food while others starve. But to address the problem only when it has reached epic proportions is almost as unmoral as not addressing it at all. The ugliest fact of the matter is that relief aid aggravates fundamental problems in the structure of developing economies by undermining long-term self sufficiency...