World Series

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  • News flash: Mets run out batted ball!

    And have a bat thrown at them for their trouble. The Yankees are making the plays, and that's why they're dominating the Series.
    By Allen Barra October 24, 2000

  • What a wuss!

    After his bat-tossing incident in Game 2, Roger Clemens offers lame excuses and weak denials. We should expect more from our World Series heroes.
    By King Kaufman October 23, 2000

  • Baseball is the sexiest sport

    Manhood is not about muscles, penis size or aggression, but about those softer things: Silence, anticipation, humility and loyalty.
    By Harriet Archer October 23, 2000

  • Strung out on pinstripes

    Two days into New York's baseball orgy, the city is cranked up and wild-eyed, but the gunslingers of the Yankees and Mets have only just begun to stare each other down.
    By Eric Bogosian October 23, 2000

  • The traffic jam Series

    Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age."
    By Allen Barra October 21, 2000

  • Save me, Alex Rodriguez

    We non-New Yorkers implore the baseball gods: Please don't make us suffer a Subway Series.
    By King Kaufman October 17, 2000

  • Where was George?

    The Yankees ended the season with a swan dive for the ages, and all their once-cantankerous owner could muster was a shrug.
    By Allen Barra October 6, 2000

  • If you fold it, they will come

    Minor league baseball is bittersweet. The players are praying for a ticket out, and it's even worse when the team is looking to move, too.
    By Steve Burgess April 3, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    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

  • The Yankees, inevitably

    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

  • On the brink

    After a come-from-behind win in Game 3, there seems to be no stopping the New York Yankees.
    By Steve Kettmann October 27, 1999

  • A battle of the generals

    With bragging rights for team of the decade at stake, Yankees manager Joe Torre and Braves skipper Bobby Cox prepare for a strategic World Series duel.
    By Steve Kettmann October 23, 1999

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for
    Weekend, Oct. 22-24, 1999
    By Joyce Millman October 22, 1999

  • Vin Scully

    For 50 years, an Irish redhead from the Bronx has been the gold standard for baseball announcers.
    By Gary Kaufman October 12, 1999

  • "29,000 people and a million butterflies"

    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

  • Escape from New York

    The San Diego Padres hope getting out of New York will change the momentum of the World Series.
    By Steve Kettmann October 19, 1998

  • Rumble in the Bronx

    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

  • Now he belongs to the ages

    Mark McGwire's towering feat united the country in admiration -- and brought baseball back from its lowest point.
    By Steve Kettmann September 9, 1998

  • The Surreal Gourmet

    The Surreal Gourmet's cut-and-save El Niño survival meal.
    By Bob Blumer November 4, 1997
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