Galaxy Brain

Yael Friedman

Former baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti (Father of Paul) liked to note that “paradise” comes from an ancient Persian word meaning “enclosed park or green.”

Michael Murray

Who are you? I am a boy standing in the uncut outfield of a baseball diamond.

Bob Bickford & Donnez Cardoza

Dear Ghost, You said to me, once upon a time: “I need more baseball.”

Camilla Taylor

In 2020, the artist Camilla Taylor devoted an exhibit to exploring ambition and identity and what sometimes arises from how one affects the other:

Susan Martin

In this one you are with a bunch of hardcore surfer guys from high school. It’s night in the wilderness of Baja California.

Michael Murray

It is with great sadness that the New York Mets family must announce the sudden passing of Mr. Met.

Yael Friedman

Basketball was an unexpected gift for a shy athletic girl who spoke no English in a community with almost no other foreigners.

Clare McCarthy

Don’t listen to Yael. She’s going to try to tell you that St. Francis CYO Basketball is a place of warmth and acceptance.

Chris Robinson

Most Ottawans of my generation grew up without much in the way of professional sports.

Craig Willms

In a world of 100 mph fastballs and high spin sweepers, sliders, cutters, gyros and slurves, the knuckle ball floats across the plate slowly, almost spinless and erratic.

Elizabeth Tevlin

My dad would be 108 this year. One vivid memory I have of him is not vivid at all, because it was in the dark.

Miguel Aragon

Santo el Enmascarado de Plata, a beloved folk hero, symbolizes justice for the common man through his legendary presence in luchador films and comic books.

Don Goldstein

I went to my first baseball game with my parents and older brother at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.

Craig Willms

When my son was two years old, we would sit at the dining room table and draw on large sheets of paper, sketchbooks, scrolls and just about any surface, all while listening to baseball games on the radio.

Kay Murcer

Somewhere somebody is birthing a baby

Tony Martins

Somewhere in the cold months of 1987, the following star-crossed events occurred, all of them true yet subject to the imperfections of my recollections.

Sophie Malleret

Foot bruised dangling / swinging

Jordana Jacobs & Jake Cohen

Match the parent to the item:

Yael Friedman

This past year, I lost a good friend and one of the most talented, fun and warm humans and writers I will ever meet

Corwin Ericson

This is how you go mushrooming: You take a picnic basket and follow someone who knows what they’re doing into the woods and ask over and over again, “Is it edible?”

Corwin Ericson

A fanfare of mushrooms
A falsehood of mushrooms
An indulgence of mushrooms

Paul Ruta

Any Toronto Blue Jays fan will tell you about Joe Carter’s walk-off homer that clinched the 1993 World Series.