The beauty of baseball 28 Articles

by Sean Poliakoff

"PLAY BALL!" For some of us this sparks childhood memories of running around bases, for others it is a way of life that we never gave up. Baseball, hotdogs, and apple pie are the American traditions that have been ha...read more

by Emma Riley Sutton

Baseball is not just a game. I do not consider myself to be, simply, a fan. I call myself a "baseball connoisseur." A connoisseur is defined as "a person with expert understanding of artistic and similar subjects." Baseba...read more

by Jack Shea

Play Ball! A new baseball season started today, March 31, 2008. If this means nothing to you, I encourage you to keep reading. Opening day in the Major Leagues, to this boy of nearly 55 years of age, is the ultimate S...read more

by William Baker

Baseball America's pastime, such a fitting description. For most fans it encompasses the majority of their year. It starts in April and doesn't end until October. For me and a lot of people it becomes the soundtra...read more

by David Skolnik

"Meet the Mets, Meet the Mets, head for the park and greet the Mets, hot dogs, green grass all out at Shea, guaranteed to have a heck of day..." For me, that theme song for Mets Extra epitomizes the beauty of baseball. ...read more

by Jill Martin

There is a ton wrong with Major League Baseball. Performance-enhancing drugs. Bud Selig. Interleague play tainting divisional races. The wild card expanding the playoffs. A boring All-Star week. Skyrocketing salaries. And ...read more

by Joanne Norell

Baseball, a game so poetic and pure. It comes in the chill spring and brings with it a cause for hope renewed. With the first pitch comes a heightened sense of excitement for the accomplishments we hope to achieve as the...read more

by Bobby Mueller

The game-time crowd of 3,672 had dwindled to less than 1,000 as the hometown Aquasox were down 9-5 heading into the bottom of the 8th It was a Monday night, people had to work the next day, a 4-run deficit seemed a bit too...read more

by Kenneth Hofmann

It is spring training once again and I am ready for some baseball. It has been a tough off-season for baseball fans, however the best cure for that is a 162 game schedule that starts April 1st. All of the talks start to ...read more

by Scott Sheldon

The Beauty Of Baseball: My friend came up to me the other day and told me, straight to my face, how baseball is boring and requires no skill. I just stared him in the eye, and did not say anything to him. I felt sorry t...read more

by Rick Soisson

Just think of it as Japanese arithmetic made easy, or how to write a superfluous paragraph. Late on September 29th the following three paragraphs appeared on MLB.com, attributed to the ordinarily astute Ken Mandel: "A ...read more

by Michael Fisk

You know you've raised your children right when they think the National Anthem ends, "...and the home of the brave. PLAY BALL!" Baseball is the game, not the business. In modern Major League Baseball the game still exis...read more

by L.E.M.S.

The beauty of the game - and why some women love the men who play it. Since I can remember baseball was a part of my life. I had three cousins living with us when I was a year or so, and I credit my two older boy cousin...read more

by Dean Shutt

My Uncle and Me My favorite baseball team is the Boston Red Sox. Of course it really isn't the point of this tale to tell you who my favorite baseball team is. The point is to perhaps illustrate what having a favorit...read more

by Neifi Perez

The MLB season has not even hit July yet and I'm frankly peeved about all of the New York Yankees talk and Sweet Lou meltdowns. A-Rod this- A-Rod that- Giambi questioned- Yankees slumping- Steinbrenner mad- Torres in jeop...read more

by The Fly Fishing Rabbi-Eric Eisenkramer

Baseball and Being a Mensch Last summer was a milestone for Bruce Froemming. Bruce is a baseball umpire. In August 2006 he was the umpire in his 5000th major league game. Bruce was 66 years old and has been an umpire...read more

by Sweetbob

I recently watched the PBS documentary, Ken Burns' "Baseball," and it made me remember why baseball was so beautiful. Baseball is full of beautiful pauses in the game. It is one of the few major sports with no running cloc...read more

by Chris Lima

Tough is the life of Ace of the Future Ian Kennedy. First big league start he tosses a gem. Six strikeouts, five hits, two walks, and an ERA of 1.29. He wins his first major league start against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, a...read more

by Simon Bello

This game is just beautiful. We are just at one third of the season and we have seen two no hitters already, first by Buherle and the second one by Verlander, and almost three because Schilling needed only one more out t...read more

by Kenneth Schonmeier

The sun, a golden globe up in the sky, caresses you with its warming touch. The breeze that brushes against your skin as it passes by, leaving in its wake the scent of fresh air. The constant buzz of the crowds along with ...read more