Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

It is the life-affirming genius of baseball that the short can pummel the tall, the rotund can make fools of the sleek, and no matter how far down you find yourself in the bottom of...

It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.