Jon Margolis

In the continuing war between hope and reality, reality has a way of prevailing more often than not. Acknowledging this truth is a bit subversive because it undercuts much of...

Proving itself a match for even such natural forces as the San Andreas Fault and the Rolling Stones, the World Series resumed Friday, 10 days after the longest and rudest...

It is not true that the earthquake made the World Series unimportant. The World Series was never important. It`s baseball, the delights of which depend on its unimportance. Paying the...

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This is not a Subway Series. The last one of those was in 1956, when anyone, fan or player, could take a subway right from one ballpark to the other,...

Though he could not be reached for confirmation, it is a reasonably good bet that even Ernie Banks would not have proposed playing two games Thursday night, even after the...

Not, mind you, that anyone wants to lose. Nor even that victory should not be followed by joy and rapture unconfined, as well as by beer and loud noises unconfined,...

So all-embracing was the 1989 collapse of the New York Mets that a symbol of their failure probably could be found on any day of the year, from the time...

Ah, the ancient virtues. Baseball on nature`s real grass and under God`s own sunshine, against ivy-covered walls in an old ballpark right in the heart of the city, played by...

The crowd that descended on Wrigley Field Sunday for what was scheduled to be, but probably won`t be, the last time this year was as pleasant and as temperate as...