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‘The The Angels Angels’ & Other Astrophysicist Baseball Observations

Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History. Author: Space Chronicle, The Pluto Files. Host: StarTalk Radio) on Baseball: > Tonight’s @AllStarGame compells me to Tweet what Baseball looks like through the…

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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #42: The Miracle

A few weeks ago, I stayed in on a Friday night reading Hannah Arendt’s essay “What is Freedom?”

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The Art of Being an Undergraduate

Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding is not actually a baseball novel; it’s a college novel, a great college novel.

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Features & Reviews

Literary Knuckleballer

Baseball’s spring training—really winter training—seems pretty superfluous these days. Most players employ personal training staffs, stay in top shape year-round, and hone their skills relentlessly with the aid of the…

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From Old Notebooks

“As the writer wrestles with his book and his family, we reexamine our thoughts about the writer. It’s a performance in which writer and reader have equal billing.”

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We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now

“I think that the greatest analogy between baseball and writing, or even life, is that the game is designed for its players to fail.”

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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

The Sycamore Review paid someone for a poem. It cost them a quarter and the poem was written on a bar napkin. Sounds like a worthwhile trade. Kent Johnson on…

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Baseball and Steroids

I’m not the sports guy here at The Rumpus–that’s Brian Schwartz, who’s better at it than I could ever be. But I am a more than casual fan of baseball,…

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