The House Topanga Built
A Brief History of the Topanga Community Center In 1964, Lee Kelly was a single mom who had recently moved to Topanga. She met her new neighbors who told her there was a yearly Children’s Christmas party at the...
Play Ball!
I recently revisited one of the finest baseball books of all time: George Will’s Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball (1990). I offer as evidence the book’s ability to stir in me some early baseball-esque memories. When I...
A Fan
The US Air Force has a tendency to periodically relocate its people and their families so, when I was in my ninth year on the planet, I was living in what was perhaps my fourth or fifth home/house. It...
Dem Bums
Although published in 1997, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Wait Till Next Year resonates during this long, hot, isolative summer. It is at heart a book about a young girl, her neighborhood, and the cultural force of baseball. A coming-of-age...
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