When I was kid, watching syndicated reruns of original series Star Trek episodes on Saturday afternoon with my dad, I thought the episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” which first aired on Sept. 22, 1966, was the best episode of the series. But as an adult, I see the episode very differently now. In … Continue reading A Close Reading of Star Trek’s ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’
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John McGraw, Baseball, and Lynching Souvenirs
Major League Spring Training is going on now, and though the pandemic has made the thought of going to a ballpark all but unthinkable before I’m properly vaccinated (and even after, maybe), a lifelong love of the game has sent me back to Ken Burns’s 1994 PBS series Baseball. It’s been a long time since … Continue reading John McGraw, Baseball, and Lynching Souvenirs