Y.S. Fing | E-MAIL | Roaming the Outfield Archive Each week, author and poet Y.S. Fing looks at the state of baseball, the movements of the game, the ebb and flow and soul of America’s pastime in Roaming the Outfield. This week: “A Thought Experiment” What if everybody decided they would no longer distinguish between pain […]
On Boston, Terror and Sports
JOSHUA LARS WEILL | @AgonicaBoss | E-MAIL It was difficult for me to watch the first-person video and footage of the bombs going off in Boston on Monday. Understandably the news networks, still mostly confused and yet reporting nearly every shred of information, true or not, were hungry for such video. It allowed the viewer a nearly […]
RtO: The Giddy First Days
Y.S. Fing | E-MAIL | Roaming the Outfield Archive Each week, author and poet Y.S. Fing looks at the state of baseball, the movements of the game, the ebb and flow and soul of America’s pastime in Roaming the Outfield. This week: “The Giddy First Days” The Nats have played and won two ballgames at this […]
Robert Horry Saved My Life
JESSICA ROAKE | @jessicaroake | E-MAIL Thirteen years ago, I graduated from college well schooled in feminist documentary, hand-made super-8 films, and the lesser known works of the Italian neo-realists (I mean, everybody’s seen The Bicycle Thief, right?). I was perhaps not super-employable. But, infused with that particular naive, pretentious idiocy of the […]
Whither the Jock Radical?
JOSHUA LARS WEILL | @AgonicaBoss | E-MAIL An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir By Robert Lipsyte Ecco, 2011 246 pp. $25.99 The Athletic Revolution By Jack Scott Free Press, 1971 Unlike so many Americans, longtime New York Times sportswriter Robert Lipsyte never wanted to be a jock. He has his reasons. As his memoir An Accidental Sportswriter shows, since growing up […]