Month: February 2019

In 2002, Priest Holmes broke football. Nobody, outside of Kansas City and the fantasy football owners he enriched, remembers that season. But it was so incredible, ridiculous, impossible, that I try to think about it every so often just to remind myself of what it feels like to be that close to perfection. As some…

I’ve been lucky enough in my lucky life to interview Henry Aaron in numerous settings. I interviewed him on a stage in Kansas City, and I interviewed him in his office in Atlanta, and I interviewed him before a World Series game. Every time it was a thrill, not just because of his greatness as…

On Dec. 20, 1926, the New York Giants traded their icon, Frankie Frisch, to the St. Louis Cardinals for their icon (and manager), Rogers Hornsby. It’s one of the biggest and, I think, most fascinating trades in baseball history. Both legends had managed to tick off their old teams. With Hornsby, the reason was easy…

There’s no real reason to rehash the silly Greatest of All Time arguments again, but I had already been thinking about LeBron James’ timeline. And then I saw that my pal Ian O’Connor, in an effort to make a viable argument for Kevin Durant to sign with the Knicks, tweeted this: No godd reason for…

In July 1988, Bo Jackson called timeout during an at-bat against Baltimore’s Jeff Ballard. It took him an instant to realize that the home plate umpire did not actually grant him timeout, and Ballard was already mid-motion. So Bo swung the bat without even setting his feet. He homered. In May 1989, writer Peter Gammons…