Unsortable Prayers – Cardboard Gods

This is me and some baseball cards. It looks like I’m saying “enough already” but with the not unhappy awareness that it will never be enough, that whatever I’m trying without much convic...

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/08/12/cardboard-gods-in-sunlight/

For a few weeks now, as the world convulses, I’ve been sorting cards. My method is to first sort cards into teams, with the teams themselves grouped on the table in front of me by the divisiona...

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/08/02/new-gods-intro/

And just like that, it’s over. Dropped three straight: mathematically eliminated. It’s not even real but I’m lying here in bed angry and sad. That fucking Bart Giamatti quote even applies t...

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/06/21/boom-boom-boom/

What’s your favorite souvenir? Mine was probably what you see here, or a version of it: a cheap plastic replica of the bullpen cart used in the 1970s by the New York Mets. I wish I still had it...

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/05/17/bullpen-buggy/

I’ve made a huge mistake. That’s what the data says so far about the flurry of cuts and acquisitions I made yesterday afternoon, altering the original roster of the Worcester Birds, while my ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/05/13/transactions/

Three members of the Worcester Birds are speeding along in a large American car. It’s after a day game, a 1-0 win highlighted by six scoreless innings by the team’s aging maestro, Luis Tiant....

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/05/07/5-8-77/

I made a few last cuts to my 1977 Strat-O-Matic team. The pitching staff after Mark Fidrych is even weaker than it had been, but the offense and fielding is a little better, I think, increasing t...

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/04/30/final-cuts/

What’s It Good For? part three (of four) One night a few weeks ago, after spending all day in this room, I went upstairs and put on my bandanna and baseball cap and took the dog outside. I en...

https://cardboardgods.net/2020/07/20/lion/

I had the privilege of talking recently with Eric Nusbaum about his new book, Stealing Home, an essential read for fans of baseball history, American history, or just plain great literature. I lo...

https://cardboardgods.net/2020/06/15/qa-with-eric-nusbaum-author-of-stealing-home/

Kingdom Come Three My father was a reader. My father wanted the kingdom of heaven to come. He wanted it here on earth for everyone, and he believed in the possibility of it here on earth, and he ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2019/01/31/theories-of-child-development/