No, The Red Sox Did Not Choke

It didn’t take long for the mob to start spewing venom over the Red Sox’s collapse. On the morning after the team’s season-ending defeat Wednesday night, the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy cut to the chase: “The greatest choke in baseball history ended the only way it could have ended, with …

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Written by Alan Hirsch on Friday September 30, 2011

Are There Any Good People Left in Baseball?

Recent issues of Sports Illustrated implicitly raised and perhaps answered an intriguing question. The August 15 issue features a cover story on Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia. Tom Verducci presents Pedroia as combining off-the-charts ability with an off-the-charts attitude. Pedroia lives …

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Written by Alan Hirsch on Friday August 26, 2011

Hold Off on Pointless Baseball Trades

Alan Schwarz recently centered a wise and touching piece in the New York Times on his five year old son’s reaction to the Mets’ trade of pitcher, Francisco Rodriguez.  Traumatized by the sudden loss of his favorite player, whom the Mets claimed they could not afford, the poor boy offered …

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Written by Alan Hirsch on Friday July 29, 2011