Frank Deford

I can't remember the last picnic I went on. I mean one of those classic old-fashioned picnics where you take a blanket and a hamper, a cooler, maybe, or a thermos, and drive out to the countryside and sit down...

You wanna win at baseball? Easy. Hire an old guy to manage your team. In this youth dominated world, it's Old-Timers' Day every day at the top of the baseball standings. The National League in particular is like an...

Since the Olympics freed its athletes from the serfdom of amateurism, the only place on the face of the earth where sports are still big time, big money, but where the athletes are forced to play without pay is our...

In a front-page article in The New York Times, the architecture critic, Nicolai Ourussoff, expressed "disappointment" on behalf of "students of architecture," because the new Met and Yankee baseball parks don't...

Baseball romantics always make such a fuss about how there is no clock in baseball, so the game is eternal or something and the team behind always has a chance. This is literally true, of course, but, hey, if you're...