IT WAS A RECORD TIME
I guess I can move now. My local record store has closed. The store, AKA Records, closed suddenly a few months ago, and with it, one of the few remaining sources for one of my great pleasures bit the dust:…
THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE HAMBURGER SIGN
Jim Bouton’s Ball Four was published in 1970 when I was 11 and sports were my entire world. I must have read Ball Four after it had been out a few years because I was interested in girls when I…