Willie Mays represented the best in sports
(June 18-19, written the night of Mays’ death, published around midnight central time) Even in the final years of Willie Mays’s baseball career, the great man slowed by nagging injuries, […]
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(June 18-19, written the night of Mays’ death, published around midnight central time) Even in the final years of Willie Mays’s baseball career, the great man slowed by nagging injuries, […]
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(July 10) My friend John is my everyday-life hero of this summer, but the real star in his tale is Little League Baseball, as a stand-in for all those local, […]
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(May 6) Baseball speedster Bobby Bonds was at nearly full speed approaching the ugly right-center fence at Candlestick Park when he took a stutter step as if considering a mighty […]
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(This is the full-length, but slightly different, version of a piece that ran April 15): When Katie Russell Newland threw out the first pitch at Chicago’s Wrigley Field in September […]
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(Jan. 27) Baseball writers who refuse to vote for pitcher Curt Schilling for the Hall of Fame are furthering the awful trend of enmeshing sports with national politics. Schilling frequently […]
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(Oct. 22) Major League Baseball is now into its World Series, but the recent string of deaths of baseball Hall of Famers reminds middle-aged fans that the game’s hold on […]
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(April 28) I have written several times in the past about the political volunteer work of my father, Haywood H. Hillyer III, a onetime Republican national committeeman who died 10 years […]
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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise paid fitting tribute Wednesday to a person without whose courage he and perhaps numerous other representatives and staffers probably would have died two years ago […]
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(May 15 column by Quin); A Red Sox vs. Rockies contest on Tuesday provided an excellent example of how “advanced metrics” are harming baseball. While the new metrics can show […]
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Baseball, and America, lost a true hero Thursday when Hall of Famer Frank Robinson died of bone cancer at age 83. Robinson was a hero, not just because he was one […]
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