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Neil Tesser: Out of Season

With everything on hold this year, including baseball, I’m re-reading Neil Tesser’s piece “Out of Season” with greater than average nostalgia.  David Starkey and I put this piece in our 1999 book Smokestacks and Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing.  … Continue reading

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Come on, Cubs…

Baseball, April 5th, Opening Day 2012. Chicago Cubs vs. Washington Nationals at iconic Wrigley Field.  “Expectations for the Chicago Cubs may be the lowest in years,” writes Tribune reporter Paul Sullivan today, and the Cubs lived down to that assessment, … Continue reading

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