baseball

Manifest Destiny Behind Home Plate

Tabitha Soren’s Photos Examine America’s Grand Ideas Mixed in With the Dirt and Sweat of the Baseball Diamond

Tabitha Soren isn’t a fan of baseball—and yet, she’s attended more than 100 games across the U.S., stood outside dozens of dugouts, and sifted through stacks of trading cards. It’s not the sport that interests her, but how baseball acts as a metaphor for the fantasies of America, from our fierce individualism to Manifest Destiny.

Soren, a Berkeley-based photographer and former correspondent for MTV News, spent 12 years following a group of young baseball players. The results of that endeavor are now on exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery in Culver …

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Casey at the Bat

by Ernest Lawrence Thayer |

A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888

The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two with but one inning more …

A Perfect Dodger Game, Minus the Dodgers

For One Weekend a Year, High School Baseball Gets Its Moment on L.A.’s Biggest Sporting Stage

There’s very little iconography around high school baseball games. They lack the under-the-lights, cheerleaders-and-band spectacle of high school football. They have little of the noise and intensity of high school …

California State Water Resources Control Board Chair Felicia Marcus

She Can Hear You If You Speak Softly. And She Carries a Wooden Baseball Bat.

Felicia Marcus is the chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board. Before participating in a panel on bringing clean water to communities around the world, she talked Star …

Retrosheet Founder David W. Smith

I Scoff at Your RBIs

David W. Smith is the founder and president of Retrosheet, a nonprofit that collects, computerizes, and distributes play-by-play data for Major League baseball games. In 2013, he retired from the …

The Arizona Diamondbacks’ Barry Axelrod

A Longtime Sports Agent on Jerry Maguire and How Mortals Can Win at Negotiations

As a longtime sports agent, Barry Axelrod represented baseball players including Jake Peavy, Jeff Bagwell, and Craig Biggio. He is currently a special assistant to the general manager of the …


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