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willard: away from the word people

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Willard Harlan Mullin was amongst the most widely published—and culturally influential—specialty cartoonists in the country, as a sports cartoonist. Once upon a time as significant a position in the sports pages as any but now, for … Continue reading

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poetry of movement

It say a lot about the cultural dialog of the time, the pre-Mad Men era, days of wine and roses and a changing post WWII world. The times of our grandfathers or even further back.It was the golden age of … Continue reading

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coach there’s a zebra at second base

Baseball, like any institution has always needed an inventory of necessary myths that sustain it, somehow invoke deity status, and some form of the exceptional that can be woven into the fabric of empire, and by extension claim a piece … Continue reading

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say hey kid

To close out black history month its inextricably bound up with the cultural politics of race, and the infinite constructions of structural restrictions that have defined those relations. The Jim Crow segregation, the African American were not America’s only victimized … Continue reading

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uncanny valley of reality

There was a post yesterday on Branch Rickey, the baseball general manager who masterminded the integration of baseball and signed Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and others to his Brooklyn Dodgers roster. Rickey was an enigmatic figure, occupying some uncanny valley … Continue reading

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dads and diamonds: fields of schemes and dreams

Samir could just not figure it out. The old man had come over from the Old Country in the early 1950’s and started a new business in a new land. Father George was from the old school. A lot of … Continue reading

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just good enough

The risk taker. Difficult. unsupportable. In many respects deeply flawed with a taste for the spotlight, fine clothing and the better things in life to a degree that was uncommon. An intensity and passion that was almost frightening. But also … Continue reading

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to be a mobile muskrat

This story resembles something I heard a long time ago. So, I guess, would surmise, there is some truth to it. A family that comes from a poor background works hard, take advantage of their breaks and builds a nice … Continue reading

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Leo and the stick man

Its about storytelling.Its about old wild men. But not the kind of tales told by the old beaks over a coffee at the mall, dangling worry beads like imaginary large fish they never caught. Old men and the sea who … Continue reading

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take off your slippers: only the nice die young

and so it is it really possible to effectuate a meaningful change in the organization of society? A fulfillment of the Isiah prophecy of relations between the spirit without the intermediary of material considerations.Can we as infants, at least aspire … Continue reading

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