Kabal-A-Rod!

Like The Yankee Years, the Joe Torre/Tom Verducci book that came out to all the buzz at the beginning of the season, Selena Roberts’ new biography about Alex Rodriguez was the topic of uber-hype. Like the Torre book, it seems much ado about nothing. Roberts’ has been criticized for her tactics and questionable conclusions about [...]

Field of Life, Fields of Dreams

Earlier this year I did a story on artist Dov Abramson and his rendering of the Kabala’s “Field of Life” in a baseball idiom. He equated the 10 “sefirot” with positions on a balfield (plus one for the first base umpire). This is the “original” design: Compare that with this essay by Reb Reuven Goldfarb. [...]