Box-Score-Free for Four Weeks and Running
Do you miss paying attention to the Pirates, but don't want to read anything about how they're playing? Then you'll find this article in The Onion extremely gratifying, as well as spot-on hilarious.
Further Pirates-related humor from this point forward is probably unnecessary.
Speaking of baseball writing, I can wholeheartedly recommend Buzz Bissinger's Three Nights in August, a slick and nuanced account of Tony La Russa and his 2003 Cardinals, taking as its focal point one late-season three-game series against the Cubs. The details about ballplayer personalities & similar intangibles are especially interesting.
It's also great to read about a classic National League Central rivalry that intensifies as the season stretches towards its climax: I've heard that those can be exciting. Well, for the Pittsburgh connection, Bissenger manages to note in passing the Randall Simon sausage-whacking incident that also happened that summer. So there was that.
Okay, okay, I mean it. Further Pirates-related humor, etc., no more, starting . . . now.
Update: Additional worthwhile baseball reading can be had at Slate, which posted an entertaining and resonant article today about the decline of childhood baseball card collections.
Slate no longer runs the "Uni Watch" columns it used to, but they're on ESPN.com now. A guy named Paul Lukas writes them; they're all about sports uniforms. Especially for sports writing, it's nicely quirky & entertaining. I guess it's not really sports writing.
Further Pirates-related humor from this point forward is probably unnecessary.
Speaking of baseball writing, I can wholeheartedly recommend Buzz Bissinger's Three Nights in August, a slick and nuanced account of Tony La Russa and his 2003 Cardinals, taking as its focal point one late-season three-game series against the Cubs. The details about ballplayer personalities & similar intangibles are especially interesting.
It's also great to read about a classic National League Central rivalry that intensifies as the season stretches towards its climax: I've heard that those can be exciting. Well, for the Pittsburgh connection, Bissenger manages to note in passing the Randall Simon sausage-whacking incident that also happened that summer. So there was that.
Okay, okay, I mean it. Further Pirates-related humor, etc., no more, starting . . . now.
Update: Additional worthwhile baseball reading can be had at Slate, which posted an entertaining and resonant article today about the decline of childhood baseball card collections.
Slate no longer runs the "Uni Watch" columns it used to, but they're on ESPN.com now. A guy named Paul Lukas writes them; they're all about sports uniforms. Especially for sports writing, it's nicely quirky & entertaining. I guess it's not really sports writing.
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