Not that a formal invitation is required, but this Thursday night, April 2, Greg will read from Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets, at the Happy Ending Lounge, home of Varsity Letters. Here's hoping you'll come out and listen and cheer and maybe buy a copy. (Already [...]

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The first thing that I saw at Citi Field and the first thing that happened to me at Citi Field had something in common: They [...]

I like this week, the week when Spring Training winds down. It's not next week, the week when the season begins and we forget this week, but I always enjoy the Baseball Eve feeling that breezes in right around now. It's the last ten minutes of eighth period before the bell rings, the Sunrise Highway [...]

As someone who grew up subject to my father's AM audio leanings, I can't think of too many things that sound classier than a traditional radio talk show from an outstanding restaurant. No kidding. Puts me in mind of Barry Gray, of Bill Mazer and now of Mark Healey, host of Baseball Digest Live, broadcast [...]

The phone rang at my desk on May 22, 1998. I didn't recognize the voice.

“Hi,” someone said. “You're gonna have Mike Piazza on the Mets, but he might or might not use some substances that aren't exactly on the up and up to keep his performance at the extraordinary level it's been since he's been [...]

“So,” Jason asked me Friday. “Have you been in the wilds yet?” His way of asking had I been to a book store so I could view my merchandise in its natural selling habitat.

Not yet, I said, but I'm headed there.

Good timing had me abandoning my hermit-ish existence and meeting some former colleagues Friday night [...]