Steven Goldman

Jackie Robinson is deservedly credited as a pioneering hero, but the man who put him in the position to do so risked a great deal as well.

The Baseball Hall of Fame wasn't originally conceptualized as a building or a museum. The initial thought was that Baseball would plant a statue on the Mall in Washington with the names of the...

1 I've been a comic book reader nearly all my life. I taught myself to read using the balloons that crowded their panels, and I can still remember the very issue with which I first began to...

As a young Beatles fan, it was explained to me that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were a songwriting partnership along the lines of Rodgers & Hammerstein (up to and including the ampersand). Great...

Since late September, it has been my privilege to be the editor of and occasional contributor to a group of baseball commentators we have taken to calling the Designated Columnists. As we wrap up...

In 1962, historian Daniel Boorstin coined the term "pseudo-event," which refers to packaged happenings like press conferences, events that generate "news" without being spontaneous. That's the...

I would like to give you a great many quotes from Joe Girardi's formal appearance here. I suppose I will, somewhere in the body of this dispatch. However, I warn you ahead of time that the dialogue...

Winter Meetings press conferences are full of deep questions to thoughtful managers. Is Chris Davis going to be the Orioles' first baseman? "I've told him he's going to get an opportunity,...