Jake Powell had a solid swing—and a big bigoted mouth. What happened to the slugger is instructive today.
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Posted inPolitical Animal
Americans Should Have Given Up on Pro Football Long Before Colin Kaepernick Saga
“It’s about time.” That was my reaction to the great Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham’s recent declaration that she would no longer watch the National Football League in the aftermath of the screwjob the league has apparently pulled on Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers star who’s being treated like a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter […]
Posted inMay 2000
Political Booknotes: Chicago’s Cubs
I WAS A PEE-WEE BLEACHER bum-11 years old during the summer of 1969 when the Chicago Cubs broke my heart by blowing the pennant to the New York Mets. I grew up seven short blocks from Wrigley Field and on dozens of days each summer my mother would heed my pleas to pack me a […]
