Category Archives: baseball
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Clichés, Word Banning, and Cherries
Leave a commentMay 21, 2025 by libroshombre
“Keep your eye on the ball” has to be one of baseball’s most fundamental clichés in teaching batting skills, …
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Baseball, Xenophobia, and Optimism
Leave a commentFebruary 14, 2025 by libroshombre
The Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, is largely forgotten these days, but as a magazine journalist writer, editor, and …
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Scherpstekendevliegs, Anticipation, and Unreadable Books
Leave a commentJuly 9, 2022 by libroshombre
Anticipation can be excruciating, but also sweet, as A.A. Milne illustrated in writing “‘Well,’ said Pooh, ‘what I like …
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Harems, Parties, and Understanding
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2020 by libroshombre
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A man’s library is a sort of a harem,” and booklovers know a person’s …
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Zeep, Odor, and Spock
Leave a commentSeptember 20, 2019 by libroshombre
“Im mel a man parv” is how you say “I love a good book” in Elvish, which J.R.R. Tolkien invented …
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Whores, Chops, and Measles
Leave a commentAugust 7, 2017 by libroshombre
In his “Histories,” Herodotus told of Psammetichus, an Egyptian king ruling around 650 BCE, who wondered what was the …
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