Opening Day 2025
Play ball! It’s Opening Day!
Play ball! It’s Opening Day!
Hope springs eternal on Opening Day . . . at least in Baltimore!
Sean Doolittle was the most DC-type ballplayer the Nationals have ever had. Happy retirement!
A visit to Fenway and a walk-off. Not a bad start to my personal 2023 season.
Thoughts on baseball’s opening day for the 2023 season.
The Nationals commit the unforgivable sin and trade Juan Soto. It is always all about the money.
Baseball and other sports have sold out to the gambling interests. My bet is that it will not end well.
A celebration fit for a return (finally) to the ballpark.
In the end, there are few men who find ways to live original lives. Moe Berg did that.
Today was to be Opening Day 2020 for the World Series Champion Washington Nationals. Alas, the Covid-19 virus had other plans for the world. But I have a suggestion for you. Last week the Washington Post asked their writers to name their top sports movies to watch during the coronavirus crisis. They really only needed to have included one. Watch Bull Durham. The best baseball movie ever. Its not even close. I’ve written many times — most recently earlier this month — about my personal spring training regimen of reading a baseball book and watching Bull Durham. I watched the movie again earlier this week, and it didn’t disappoint. Regular readers know how I feel. But don’t just take my word for it. I’ve recently been reading a number of columns about culture and politics by the Post opinion writer Alyssa Rosenberg. She’s smart and a very good writer. So no surprise to learn that she thinks Bull Durham is a great movie, and well deserving of the moniker of a film classic. As her Post colleague Tom Boswell once said a long time ago, “Marianne Moore …