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Akers revisits his hometown ballpark, Herschel Greer Stadium, where the Triple-A Nashville Sounds have played since the 1970s. The team is lobbying for a new park, just like other cities around the country: This leaves Tammen, who will give a speech at this year’s winter meetings about “how to make the best of an old […]

Steve Salerno writing for the Missouri Review on baseball, manhood and, most of all, a life lived in America’s batting cages: It is the mark of my absorption that I know the pitching machines in American cities large and small, their habits and quirks, as well as I know their physical locations and the best […]

A brief history of how reporters first covered performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, starting with the time Baseball Weekly writer Pete Williams hit the gym with Ken Caminiti: His post-workout high set him off to report on creatine, the supplement Baseball Weekly would dub the game’s “new gunpowder.” Baseball Weekly had a decent travel […]