I’m a baseball schnorrer . Theres no getting around it. As I reviewed in my mind my visits to Yankee Stadium, I see a definite pattern...

I knocked in the go-ahead winning run in our temple’s season opening softball game Sunday, striking another blow for almost-over-the-hill ...

While Gilda tried to fall asleep beside me Saturday night, I watched the end of the third game of the World Series with the sound off. As ...

Hard to believe, our son Daniel turned 35 today. Gilda and I can’t believe we’re that old, er, I mean, he’s that old. Seems like just yest...

Gilda forwarded an article to me from, appropriately enough, The Forward, a newspaper that during its heyday at the turn of the 20th cent...

Just as they did 100 years ago today when they opened the new playground of the hometown Boston Red Sox, the NY Yankees (known then as the ...

Now that ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast has been circumcised of any openly bigoted celebrities (thank you, Hank Williams Jr., for m...

Stopped at a red light the other day, I glanced down at my right hand and did a double take. Could it be? Were those round shadings on the b...

Now I know the joy of rooting against the NY Yankees. Bliss would be one more loss, tonight, against the Tampa Bay Rays followed by New York...

Abused Again: In his Thursday night send-up of the Israeli-Palestinian statehood debate, labeled “West Bank Story” by the Emmy-award winnin...

No one could ever accuse Derek Jeter, captain of the NY Yankees, of having an undeveloped sense of drama. Everything he does seems to be tin...

Is it time to panic? Is losing 8 of 9 games to the Boston Red Sox, encompassing two consecutive three game sweeps at Yankee Stadium, includi...

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. For most of my professional life I worked this day. It was not included in the 10 authorized holidays ...

Gilda advised me when I woke up Thursday morning that Syracuse, NY, was under two feet of snow. I checked the weather forecast—over the next...

I’ve got a handwriting problem. I can’t always read notes I’ve written down for blog entries. I walk around with a pad and pen in my back po...

It was too hot to go to the movies yesterday. I had been planning to catch the 2:15 pm showing of Toy Story 3 at the Clearview Cinemas in Y...

Our temple softball team lost again today. So far this season the team has an ignominious 0-6 record, a sharp turn from the last few seasons...