Despite the rain pouring down here in New York City, despite the recession, despite the unsettling feelings pervading so much of our lives these days, another Opening Day is here for Major League Baseball. And not a moment too soon–a chance to lose ourselves in the game, to re-engage with the beauty of the sport,…

As a Yankees fan, I was thrilled when a gorgeous new coffee table book, “The Final Season: The Official Retrospective” by Alfred Santasiere III and Mark Vancil came across my desk. The book details the final season at the original Yankee stadium–from Pope Benedict XVI’s visit, holding mass for tens of thousands of Catholics to…

Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has announced his retirement, and I read the news with a mixture of sadness and admiration–sadness that we won’t get to watch one of the most dominant pitchers of our time anymore, admiration that he’s walking away with his star bright, without a long, drawn-out series of failed comebacks (hopefully).…

Okay! Two days down. Three weeks to go. And our national holiday rolls on: March Madness! I don’t remember when the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament became a national holiday season. I don’t remember when employers decreed that taking time away from professional tasks to fill out brackets was approved within Human Resource policy. I don’t…

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