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Sports
Can You Have Quidditch without Harry Potter?
How an Oddball Nerd Hobby Grew into a Semi-Professional Sport
By
Dwyer Murphy
| June 26, 2017
Confronting Anxiety Through Baseball
Two New Books at the Fraught Intersection of Sports and Mental Illness
By
Britni de la Cretaz
| May 22, 2017
The Fine Art of Cheating in Baseball
Remembering Red Faber, One of the Last Great Spitballers
By
Terry McDermott
| May 15, 2017
The Search for a Lost Self in the Far North
Sallie Tisdale Wanders Out Onto the Ice
By
Sallie Tisdale
| May 4, 2017
What Curse? On the Chicago Cubs and Generations of Bad Luck
Scott Simon is Finally Ready to Talk About All the Bad...
By
Scott Simon
| April 24, 2017
When Baseball Fantasy Crashes Into Reality
Where Are They Now: The Oakland A's 2002 Draft Class
By
Dwyer Murphy
| April 6, 2017
Best Reviewed
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On Time, Baseball, and the Cruel Hope of Opening Day
By
Mark Kingwell
| March 31, 2017
Donald Trump Has Made It Hard to Be a New England Patriots Fan
By
Dwyer Murphy
| February 3, 2017
10 Great Longform Essays About Football in American Culture
By
Emily Temple
| February 3, 2017
The Joy of Running
On the Fundamental Human Rhythm of One Foot After the Other
By
Gary McDowell
| January 18, 2017
The New Literature of MMA
On the 21st Century Writing About a Very 21st Century Sport
By
Dwyer Murphy
| November 11, 2016
A Literary Look at the Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series
The Year in Literature, 1908. Or, Variations on a Meme
By
Emily Temple
| November 3, 2016
Ha Jin on the Long Reach of the Chinese Government
Love, Betrayal, and the Totalitarian Machine
By
Dylan Foley
| October 25, 2016
On the Short-Lived All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
There's No Crying in Baseball—But There
Was
Lipstick
By
Cait Murphy
| October 25, 2016
Jackie Robinson Was More Than Just a Pioneer
On the Man and Player Who Made History
By
Cait Murphy
| October 25, 2016
Three Tales of Baseball in Honor of the World Series
From Cait Murphy's
History of American Sports in 100 Objects
By
Literary Hub
| October 25, 2016
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