“It’s Not Personal, Sonny. It’s Strictly Business”
Much has been written about the Derek Jeter situation. I was talking to my brother-in-law last week about it, and I brought up some relevant and relatively obscure illustrative points. One, that I love, is Tom Seaver’s incredulity at ownership’s shock that players, the most competitive people on Earth, were equally fierce at the bargaining […]
The Ultimate Seven-Game Fall Classic: Game Two
November 4, 2010 by Mike Lynch · 1 Comment
In part one of my Ultimate Seven-Game Fall Classic series, I featured Game One of the 1988 World Series between the Oakland A’s and Los Angeles Dodgers. This time around, I’m traveling back to the Deadball Era when pitchers still dominated the game and runs were hard to come by. It wasn’t until the “Roaring […]
