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My favorite books of all time?  That compilation changes faster than New York Times Bestsellers, but there are always a few constants, a fe...

Frank Bascombe, from Richard Ford's prize winning trilogy ( The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land ), is back in a...

It's the last day in our quick Chicago trip - Tuesday, October 7th - and Karen is attending the second day of her conference.  Before...

I warned you about the Curse of the Goat - about Billy Sianis hexing the 1945 Chicago Cubs, a hex so strong that the Cubbies haven't be...

It's just baseball, right?  Just a game.  But this time, it got personal. Game Number One for the Giants, in this Best-of-Five Divisio...

Baseball and superstition go hand in hand.  Many will point to the Curse of the Bambino as the most well known - but for my money, you gotta...