Tag Archives: Universal Baseball Association

Shohei Like a Superhero in a Novel

By Robin Bates | Published: August 24, 2023

Baseball phenom resembles a character in Coover’s novel “Universal Baseball Association.”

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Golf Suddenly Seems Green Again

By Robin Bates | Published: June 25, 2011

Something happened in the course of the recent U. S. Open tournament. Lucille Clifton’s poem is about the “damn wonder” of renewal, and golf is catching a whiff of something fresh in the boy-faced Rory McIlroy.

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Stephen Strasburg Is Pitching Hope

By Robin Bates | Published: August 14, 2010

Sports Saturday There is nothing like a brilliant rookie pitcher to breathe life back into the game of baseball. Living less than two hours from our nation’s capital, I’m in the midst of the unbridled excitement over the Washington Nationals’ Stephen Strasburg. Strasburg had a bad outing as he came off Injured Reserve this past […]

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The Meaning of Cub Fan Suffering

By Robin Bates | Published: April 3, 2010

Sports Saturday In one of the tidiest sports weekends of the year, one sports comes to an end while another begins.  March Madness holds its semi-final and final games while baseball kicks off its season. To celebrate opening day, I promise reader Carl Rosin a write-up on a baseball novel. It seems like the great baseball novels […]

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