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Beth
Tour Guide Beth Some tour I’m leading here, huh? Imagine going on such a tour, the guide leading the group past a few featured pieces in a steady rhythm and then just, like, stopping, maybe staring...
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Nine Innings with Andy Strasberg
I received an advance copy of Baseball Fantography just as I was finishing the recent series on Cardboard Gods that had been inspired by a photo on the Fantography™ website of Padres pitcher Dave...
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The Last Airbender
I have always walked a lot, and though my life has changed considerably since my son was born last year I still walk a lot, now with him strapped to my chest. I wish I could say I spend the entirety...
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Sad and Beautiful World
Here’s a photo of Morty Gaber, my friend and former boss, who died a month or so ago at the age of 87. I mention this photo in an essay up today on The Classical. The last time I saw him was in the...
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Purpose
Over the past year I’ve seen my wife struggle and sweat through pregnancy, scream in searing pain and terror through a day and a night and a day of labor, and become the tirelessly loving albeit...
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Bad
I haven’t been sleeping much, writing much, or doing anything much except spotting my never-sleeping 1-year-old as he careens around on his wobbly new walking legs as if maniacally intent on smashing...
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Opening
My son has been a little melty lately. As in, he is prone to melt downs. I think it has something to do with his being at the cusp of language. Something in his world isn’t how he wants it to be, or...
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Josh and Kurt Bevacqua
Josh and Kurt Bevacqua are now friends. Josh and Kurt Bevacqua play racquetball together and afterward grab a beer. Josh and Kurt Bevacqua watch the game and commiserate about how things aren’t the way...
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Pork Chop Pough
660 days until my next book comes out. I have a lot of work still to do before my next book comes out. That’s why it’s 660 days from coming out and not about 365 days fewer than that, as was originally...
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reasons
I intended for this photo to be right side up in this fucking post. I also intended before starting to write the post to Google the words “Sweet Jane” but I hadn’t slept much and was up early and had...
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Bill Walton
You Are the Eyes of the World One I am sick of worrying over every sentence, every word, and so without stopping, jamming, hoping to find pure play, I am going to write about the greatest moments in...
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Scottie Pippen
You Are the Eyes of the World Two Sitting on a bench is usually an indication that the world has said No to you, not that you have said No to the world. For a long time I believed my life story was an...
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The Astrodome Bench
You Are the Eyes of the World Four I thought my life had more or less taken whatever shape it was going to take. I thought I’d seen all I’d ever see, and anything in my path from here on out would be...
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Bill Walton
You Are the Eyes of the World Conclusion When Bill Walton first met the bench, he greeted it with utter dejection. You want life to be one unbroken moment of play, but it won’t be. Sooner or later,...
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The Benchwarmer Interview
The Benchwarmer Interview The following is a roundtable discussion about my new book, Benchwarmer, with a series of versions of Josh Wilker. (This was inspired by David Ebenbach’s post about his new...
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Darryl Dawkins
In memory of Darryl Dawkins In 1979, the world was divided thusly: Those who could graze the bottom of the net. Those who could grab the net. Those who could touch the rim. Those who could grab the...
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Rich Camarillo
Even in a 46 to 10 thrashing there is hope. It doesn’t seem that way in retrospect, but as you’re living through it—and this goes for life too—you’ll constantly be buoyed by possibilities, even as...
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Glen Bockhorn
Days up and down they come Like rain on a conga drum Forget most, remember some But don’t turn none away. –Townes Van Zandt, “To Live’s to Fly” I’d never turn a baseball card away, but days are a...
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Tim Krauss
This card from 1986 feels different than a major league card, flimsier, promotional, disposable. The player’s name is spelled differently on the front than it is on the back (“Krausse”), and on the...
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Ken Reeves
I’ve never loved a TV show as much as I loved The White Shadow. As a kid I couldn’t believe it existed, that something so specifically appealing to me was out there. It was the story of fictional...
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