Who’s on First

Brooke Champagne: Aint Steve

Fall Poetry

Selen Ozturk: Tiebreak
Matthew Lippman: Because Getting Anywhere Takes a Long Time

Eric Stinton: The Pit
Joshua Hall: Psycho Therapy: On Pain and Self-Improvement

In Memoriam Verse

Jack Ridl: Willie and the Prof
Ralph James Savarese: Jerry West
Brock Guthrie: Tacklebox: March 2020

SL Harwood and Ice

Kareem Tayyar: Divine Hoops
Rifke Vatsaas: Ode to the Bottom Six; Half Blind
Bruce Pratt: Compulsory Figures

SL 1970’s Contest

Robert Wallace: Something to Do with Playing Ball (winning essay)
David J. Rothman: A Sweet, Wild Passion (winning poem)
Jack Bedell: On That ’70s Winner
Sydney Lea: On the Downhill Champion

Throwers, Watchers, and Base Brawlers

David Guaspari: Catch as Catch Can
Thomas Reynolds: Bo Jackson’s Man Cave; Diehards
Jeral Williams: Arc of Anticipation
Charlie Brice: Prayer, Patriotism, Play Ball

SL Old-School Football, Basketball, and Baseball

Ron Smith: Football, the Seventies
John S. O’Connor: Sweetness
Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith: The Immaculate Reception
Kareem Tayyar: The Lost Generation
William Moorhead: Dove Without Wings: Knuckleball
Dayn Perry: Henry Aaron, April 8, 1974

SL Book Club

William Meiners: Rus Bradburd’s Big Time

Home and Hearth

Chris Abbate: Bull Riding Dad’s Legs
Jay Lesandrini: Ron Santo Day: August 28, 1971
William Huhn: The Maw of Sheol
Dale Rigby: My Locker Room Talk
Kathleen Williamson: Abstract Lessons from a Concrete World