To the editor:
It is almost impossible to just listen to the Red Sox.
If it is not Johnny Pesky night, it is a celebration of a past winning team.
Knee-jerk applause greets lumbering memories as everything is made golden with a sort of saint-halo religious tint.
A kind of self-adoration takes over from ‘just play ball.’
A game played for money is doused with sprays of holiness by high-priest announcers.
A double-play is divine, a home run proof of the presence of God.
Malcolm Miller
Salem
To the editor: This is addressed to whomever took our flowers. Each year we place planters on my family grave site in St. Mary's Cemetery in Salem. This year I returned to water them and the entire planter was removed leaving just the supporting le
To the editor: I had the chance to visit Harry Ball Field recently, and was saddened by the lack of sportsmanship I witnessed. I was watching AAA baseball, a step down from the majors, with 10- and 11-year-old boys. First and foremost, I am in favor
Early this month the chemical composition of the atmosphere, which for a variety of reasons changes constantly but very slowly, reached a mixture of gases that is considered to bode ill for the stability of climates across the globe. Specifically, th
To the editor: What meager credibility that I have allowed Barbara Anderson over the many years of reading her columns has finally washed out to sea off her beloved Marblehead Harbor. Her column on May 1, titled "The zenith of absurdity," offered the
It's not a huge surprise that our lieutenant governor has decided to quit his post and take a much lower-profile job in the private sector. Perhaps the only surprise is why it took him this long to acknowledge that he had lost the public's confidence
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