The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite,That ever I was born to set it right! The summer of 2022 is just starting, but the simulated summer of 1977 that’s happening again within my attempted...
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...
Ed Kranepool looks like he’s probably having fun, and why wouldn’t he be? He’s leaning on a batting cage with a bat tucked under his arm, a sign that he’ll soon be getting a turn to take ...
Dazzler Two In the 1920s, a debt-ridden small business owner in Quincy, Massachusetts, doubled the butterfat in the ice cream he sold at the soda fountain in the back of his pharmacy. The ice cre...
After a specialist removed the breathing apparatus, it took my father about an hour and fifteen minutes to die. He was lying on a hospital bed in the critical care unit. His eyes were closed, and...
Where is my father? My father is in a box of ashes in Asheville. My father is at Shea. I am at Shea too. It’s 1979. There’s hardly anyone in the stands. The planes headed to and from Laguardi...
I’m just going to hang out a little with Ed Kranepool here. It’s just after 9 at night on a weekday. My kids are asleep. I worked all day, worked pretty hard, I guess, but my bike ride home l...
World Series preview Tonight after my wife and I got our two boys to sleep I came down to our carpeted basement and cleared out a space in the thick tangle of baby toys and toddler toys and flipp...
https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/26/vada-pinson-and-ron-hodges/
NLCS preview Predictions are asinine. This probably holds true for everything, but it’s particularly applicable to baseball, in which even the best teams lose forty percent of the time. The nat...
https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/17/rick-reuschel-and-ron-hodges/
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/