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steven-robert-travers's picture
Sep.11.2012
In my spare time, I have decided to solve the most pressing problems facing baseball today.  Several years down the road, when the czars of the...
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Sep.12.2012
Some great baseball players came out of El Dorado High School in Placentia in the late 1980s. First, Bret Boone, who was an All-American at USC...
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Sep.12.2012
  On Saturday, USC travels to Stanford to take on the Cardinal. This excerpt from Steven Travers's "The USC Trojans: College Football's All-Time...
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Sep.13.2012
Major League pitchers are supposed to be monsters. Six-feet, six inches tall, 220 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal. A three-day growth...
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Sep.13.2012
Kids today don’t know about history, which is strange because supposedly they live in the “information age,” everybody goes to college, yet the more...
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Sep.14.2012
The game of baseball is a game of records. Records, as they say, are made to be broken. Baseball has a few of those. Ruth’s 60 beget Maris’ 61 which...
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Sep.17.2012
Baseball is, at best, America's third favorite sport.  Maybe lower.  Just listen to the pundits.  They have been writing the Grand Ol...
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Sep.17.2012
Veteran journalist Steven Travers is now writing for the political web site http://www.wnd.com/, which also publishes WorldNetWeekly magazine and is...
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Sep.18.2012
No apologies. No humble pie. No humility.   That was the atmosphere at Pacific Bell Park on the night Barry Bonds hit his five hundredth career...
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Sep.19.2012
Bill King is as much a part of my life as my friends and family. I grew up with him. Memories of his words describing uterrly, absolutely fantastic...
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Jun.22.2010
I'm very excited to announce that my brain has left the building, so I thought I'd give you some updates on recent blog topics instead of something...
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Feb.12.2010
We can't all like everyone all the time. But we can work harder at tolerance, compassion, empathy, generosity, and a genuine desire to recognize that...
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Apr.23.2010
It was just a few years ago that I finally realized my children were going to be my greatest teachers in this life. Though I’ve had many other...
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Aug.07.2009
My first, impulsive answer to the Red Room's question was "You don't want to know." The second was "Ask my wife." And then there...
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May.03.2013
When I read fiction, I’m seeking experience apart from mine; an island, a ship, afloat from everyday life (wondrous as the everyday can be in its...
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Mar.03.2009
Singing Us Back to Ourselves Kathryn Stripling Byer Writers have this quaint idea that words matter. Quaint because many people no longer seem to...
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Mar.28.2009
What does poetry do for us? What sort of perspective does it bring to our everyday lives? I invite your answers to these open-ended questions. The...
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Apr.12.2009
Ivy, Sing Ivory 1 Like women, the dogwoods go nowhere and wait for their season, the sun coming back like a sea-roving laddie. By May Day the...
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Mar.04.2009
This week I've been in conversation with Anthony Doerr, author of the Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome.   Our conversation can...
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alex-grant's picture
Apr.03.2009
I remember watching a "Next Generation" episode about how the crew became addicted to what they thought was an innocuous game, which...
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