Willie Mays (1931–2024)
“A name that even people far afield from the baseball world recognized instantly as a national treasure”: from the New York Times obituary.
“Home Run”
A sentence-long story by Steven Millhauser.
Chock full and Jackie Robinson
Chock full o’Nuts is marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball with commemorative cans and a donation from profits to the Jackie Robinson Foundation.
Hank Aaron and Peanuts
For two weeks in August 1973, Peanuts devoted its daily (non-Sunday) strip to Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, and Snoopy.
“Give yourself a coffee-break”
It’s 1952, and the New York Giants are drinking coffee in the dugout.
Don Larsen (1929–2020)
I’ve known Don Larsen’s name since boyhood.
Ballpark design
From the podcast 99% Invisible, an episode about the design of new ballparks.
Baseball and silence
I know very little about baseball, but it seems to me that the game invites contemplation — watching and waiting and thinking. Joe Buck and company, but especially Buck, sucked all the silence out of the game.
8–7
Cubs win it all.
Go, Cubs, go
National League champions.
Yogi-isms
“Little things are big.”
Roger Angell on Don Zimmer
Irresistible writing.
Baseball and handwriting
The New York Times reports on baseball players’ illegible autographs.
Vin Scully on statues
“I would rather just be part of the scenery, rather than be standing out.”
The Baseball Reliquary
A museum of baseball relics -- Babe Ruth's cigar, Dock Ellis' curlers, and so on.