On Sunday, July 24, 2016, Mets catcher Mike Piazza will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York, doubling the number of Mets in the Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame election is baseball’s canonization. Pray4Mets’ biggest challenge in 2015 was discerning a way to help men who were rabid Mets fans and […]
Read more "Of Saints…"Following the Mets’ sweep of the Cubs last week, The New York Times’ Dan Barry prepared a clever page one (sports section) story written in old-school, 1908 prose style. Can you imagine Barry (and his headline writer) using a calculus to come up with key concepts that reflect a century-distant past? ‘What words and phrases were popular in […]
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