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Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker is the new whipping boy for the American race industry.
By Peter Collier
January 22, 2000
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From the murder to a football star's pregnant girlfriend to the retirement of four sports icons, 1999 was a bad year to be a sports fan.
By Julian Rubinstein
December 23, 1999
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Nuzzle's plaintive rock comes on as unexpectedly soft as a full-count change-up.
By Mac Montandon
November 19, 1999
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At last, coverage of women's sports that even this non-spectator can appreciate. Plus: One writer's plaintive cry: "Enough with the sex, dammit!"
By Jenn Shreve
November 5, 1999
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If Pete Rose won't fess up, he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame; why we're chicken-pox party parents.
Letters to the Editor
November 2, 1999
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The New Yorkers sweep their second straight World Series. They may be one of history's best teams, but their charm is starting to fade.
By Steve Kettmann
October 28, 1999
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Readers bust a gut on fat guy story; it's time to give up on baseball; sick of hearing about Harmony Korine's shockfest.
Letters to the Editor
October 22, 1999
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What's a nice gay guy like me doing in a chat room like this? Plus: Remembering the most musical voice in baseball; can you still travel off the beaten track?
Letters to the Editor
October 19, 1999
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Joe Morgan's book argues that the national pastime is headed for a disaster. But that might not be such a bad thing.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 15, 1999
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For 50 years, an Irish redhead from the Bronx has been the gold standard for baseball announcers.
By Gary Kaufman
October 12, 1999
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Vin Scully's radio call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's 1965 perfect game against the Chicago Cubs is pure baseball literature.
By Vin Scully
October 12, 1999
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He brought American ballplayers to Cuba and beat back the umpires' union. Now some say he is the natural to take over the helm of major league baseball -- someday.
By Steve Kettmann
October 7, 1999
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The best broadcaster you won't hear on the air talks about umpire arrogance, the home-run chase and "the Viagra of baseball."
By Joan Walsh
October 7, 1999
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If you're not as old as Kevin Costner's aging character at the beginning of this dreary baseball fable, you will be by the end.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 17, 1999
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A spirited biography of a 19th century ballplayer smacks a pie in the face of baseball nostalgia.
By Jonathan Miles
July 29, 1999
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In the mid-'60s, whites weren't ready for the best baseball player to be
black, and blacks weren't ready for him to be black like Mays.
By Joan Walsh
July 13, 1999
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He's one of nature's wonders: A brilliant young catcher who can run. But on Independence Day his luck ran out.
By Henry Louis Taylor
July 6, 1999
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A single T-ball mom admits her crush on the
heroically patient coach of the perfect kids' game.
By Virginia Moran
June 8, 1999
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A legendary newspaperman picks five sports novels that really hit home.
By Pete Hamill
May 3, 1999
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Baseball and Cuba -- two hidebound institutions needing reform -- get a public relations boost from an extra-innings game in the Havana sunshine.
By Steve Kettmann
March 29, 1999
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In an era of noisy sports superstars, the nation will miss the private dignity of Joe DiMaggio.
By Steve Kettmann
March 9, 1999
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If you film it, they will come: A passionate sports fan begins his cross-country pilgrimage with a visit to Iowa's Field of Dreams. Excerpted from "Road Swing," by Steve Rushin.
By Steve Rushin
December 18, 1998
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Their merciless sweep of the Padres in the 1998 World Series places the New York Yankees in the pantheon of the greatest teams ever to play the game.
By Steve Kettmann
October 22, 1998
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This is the main event: The gritty Padres venturing into the hard-as-nails mayhem of Yankee Stadium to face one of the most elegant -- and greatest -- teams of our time.
By Steve Kettmann
October 16, 1998
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Mark McGwire's towering feat united the country in admiration -- and brought baseball back from its lowest point.
By Steve Kettmann
September 9, 1998
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