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Played 4. I’m gonna read every one of these books, I said when I got the box of my father home. I felt the inevitable failure of this vow almost instantly, as I started and then quickly abandon...

https://cardboardgods.net/2018/12/21/john-christensen-played/

Played 1. John Christensen doesn’t look like he’s playing. Maybe he’s being played with. Maybe two other guys keep faking like they’re going to throw to John Christensen and then instead ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2018/12/05/john-christensen/

What do you follow? I used to follow baseball. I mean I used to just follow it anywhere and everywhere. Lyman Bostock. Mario Mendoza. Up, down, whoever, however. I veered away from this undiffere...

https://cardboardgods.net/2016/05/09/tom-wilhelmsen/

Immortality 5. The greatest sages from ancient times Have not shown us life immortal. What is born must die . . . -Han Shan The Chinese poet Han Shan lived over a thousand years ago. No one knows...

https://cardboardgods.net/2015/01/24/mario-mendoza-2/

In an essay of mine that went up today on the Los Angeles Review of Books, I mention a game I went to by myself in the summer of 1986. I wanted to see Tom Seaver pitch. He had recently been acqui...

https://cardboardgods.net/2012/06/05/mark-langston/

I can’t escape the 1970s. I want to live in the present. I can’t escape the present. I want to live in the 1970s. I am trapped somewhere in between, like a guy on a baseball card whose unifor...

https://cardboardgods.net/2012/01/27/jim-todd/

The morning I learned for sure my wife was pregnant, I was gazing out the window, putting off getting my day underway. I noticed a man on the sidewalk across the street from my apartment with his...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/05/25/joe-simpson/

According to the Gods: a 2011 Team-By-Team Preview Seattle Mariners You can’t predict the future. You can only hope for the best. Here is the first Seattle Mariners squad ever assembled, the 19...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/03/19/seattle-mariners-1978/

Yesterday I went to the third game in the Red Sox’ four-game series against the White Sox, thanks to the kind invite of Joe Stillwell of Stats, Inc. In the first inning, after the first two Whi...

https://cardboardgods.net/2009/09/07/ichiro/

Sundown (continued from Scott McGregor) Three I. I used to live a few blocks north of a bustling Hasidic neighborhood in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. On Fridays as dusk approached the st...

https://cardboardgods.net/2009/08/10/ruppert-jones/