Saving Baseball on the Radio: The Detroit Tigers’ Dan Dickerson & Jim Price
Detroit Tigers radio broadcasters Dan Dickerson and Jim Price keep a dying art alive.
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Stories
Creative nonfiction and stories from around the world of sports.
A Thank You Note To The Boston Red Sox
XN editor Tom Fitzgerald thanks the Boston Red Sox for helping him find his soul again.
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Baseball, a Muse: Interview with Baseball Painter Graig Kreindler
Baseball painter Graig Kreindler has made a name for himself by painting dead baseball players. Not baseball players while dead, but baseball players who are currently dead.
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The D-Train Don’t Stop There Anymore
Mike Salisbury fleshes out the enigma that is Dontrelle Willis, and the Dontrelle Willis that used to be Dontrelle Willis.
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Digital Trophy Case – Winning it all on NHL ’95
B.J. Jones recalls the year he won the Vezina and Hart trophies, on NHL ’95.
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When The Bird Was The Word
Fiction author Peter Markus reminds us that Mark Fidrych only needed one season to leave his singular mark on the game.
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Baseball and Samuel Beckett: Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better
When I write, I am reaching always back to words already written. I reach back now to take hold of the words of Samuel Beckett who staked this declaration into the hard dirt of our living ground: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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Up from the Dirt: A Modest Proposal, or On What to Do with the Corner of Michigan and Trumbull
Tiger Stadium no longer rises up on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull. The land itself where Tiger legends like Cobb and Kaline owned Detroit’s most infamous corner house has been left to go (for the past ten seasons) to weed.