Jon Margolis

Look out, they`re coming. No, they`re already here. The first ominous portent appeared during the sixth inning of Tuesday`s game between the Cubs and the New York Mets. Into the...

Alas, poor Baltimore. Not only is it in danger of bitter disappointment, but it isn`t even sure whether the disappointment is going to be disappointing. In its agony, though, Baltimore...

Walking along the other day in one of Manhattan`s livable regions, a local resident was surprised to find an unusual companion on the sidewalk. It was a car. A moving...

Announcing the demise of Pete Rose the other day, Bart Giamatti did leave one question unanswered: Just what is Giamatti running for, anyway? Not to be overly cynical, it is...

Such was Bart Giamatti`s success that it was hardly diminished by the extent to which he savored it. Not that there was any hypocrisy in Giamatti`s description of the entire...

James S. Kemper Jr. may have been to the manor born, but it took him a while to find it. At 75, Kemper is where one would expect him to...

Gliding along near the west bank of the river, the pelican dipped his beak into the water and tipped his head back to swallow-without benefit of evisceration, deboning or lemon...

It was, said the announcer, ''a sellout'' at the heavyweight championship fight here last Friday night, with 11,112 paying customers in the house for a total gate of $2.5 million....

Hey buddy. Wanna buy a ballclub? Well of course you do. Assuming that you`re a red-blooded American. Who wouldn`t want his own real, professional ballplayers who would have to bunt...

When the world began, last April, those who know the secrets of creation told us that only this much was certain: The New York Mets and the Oakland Athletics would...