Category Archives: sports
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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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Maniacs, Books, and Water
Leave a commentNovember 26, 2024 by libroshombre
My mornings begin with drinking a glass of water from our deep, sweet well, and each time I try to …
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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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Nanoparticles, Hamdogs, and Freaking Out
Leave a commentMay 13, 2022 by libroshombre
Our family’s Kentucky Derby brunch turned out to be fertile ground for intellectual speculation, ranging from sandwiches to parasocial …
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Baseball, Gags, and the Power of Three
Leave a commentMarch 12, 2022 by libroshombre
The shutdown of major league baseball made a recent New Yorker cartoon by Roz Chast poignant. Chast is a …
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The Etymology of Soccer, Football, and Ageless Slang
Leave a commentJuly 10, 2014 by libroshombre
The old Scottish poet Allan Cunningham once wrote about a time “when looks were fond and words were few.” That …
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Baseball, Personal MBAs, and the Eagles of Dutch Harbor
Leave a commentMarch 6, 2014 by libroshombre
It’s snowing in Fairbanks, but springtime for professional baseball teams, including my beloved Texas Rangers. Though never much of a …
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