Los Angeles Dodgers – Cardboard Gods

One of the many things I learned in Singled Out, Andrew Maraniss’s excellent recent biography of Glenn Burke, was that Burke was a much bigger part of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ winning the 197...

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/06/06/glenn-burke/

Someone broke into our car last night. We didn’t realize it until my wife got a phone call from a stranger who said he found an emissions test receipt with our name on it on the sidewalk severa...

https://cardboardgods.net/2018/01/29/tim-crews/

California Sun II. While I was attempting to write something poetic about the California sun, my elderly cat here in Chicago made a strangulated sound nearby. I got up from my desk and discovered...

https://cardboardgods.net/2016/10/20/ron-cey/

This is of course the moment in Fernando Valenzuela’s indelible windup when he has first come out of his brief sky-trance. We all should approach our life’s work with this mixture of focus an...

https://cardboardgods.net/2016/03/11/fernando-valenzuela/

NLDS preview, part two (part one here) One of the last classes I took as an undergrad, many years ago, was in Chaucer, and the only thing I remember was the tale of the knight concluding with a d...

https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/09/manny-mota-and-ron-hodges/

(This post originally appeared on The Classical.) The World’s Greatest Athlete Who is the world’s greatest athlete? In honor of all the recent leaping and flailing and patriotic sobbing, I w...

https://cardboardgods.net/2012/08/16/rick-rhoden/

(This post originally appeared on The Classical.) Harold I can’t find any information on the internet about Bill Bene’s sentencing, if it has even happened yet. The latest news, that Bene pl...

https://cardboardgods.net/2012/06/20/bill-bene/

The following is a guest article written by Pete Wingate. The greatest story in Wingate history is from when my older brother faced off against Charlie Hough. (Apparently Charlie’s father was s...

https://cardboardgods.net/2012/04/11/charlie-hough-by-guest-author-pete-wingate/

The Cardboard Gods Ass Backwards ABCs of Parenting Y Is for Yeager Baseball is often used to define fatherhood, and fatherhood is often used to define baseball. Somewhere it was said that basebal...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/10/17/steve-yeager-2/

In the beginning, Terry Forster must have seemed like The Natural. He made it to the major leagues as a teenager able to do anything and everything on a baseball diamond. In his first two big lea...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/04/20/terry-forster/