- May 7
- 9 min
Guest Toteboard: Baseball and the 'Sweet Nuthin'
Herman's Toteboard is pleased to feature its very first guest column. The author, Aiden Downey, is a Georgia-based writer, Renaissance...
- Apr 27
- 4 min
Foul Balls: The First of the Unintended Consequences
Admittedly, the Toteboard won’t miss the excessive cat-and-mouse games of pitchers stepping off and batters stepping out, of pitchers...
- Apr 20
- 3 min
Clarence Doodles . . . and Doodles . . . and Doodles . . .
Just over a year ago, when the Toteboard was feeling in one of its half-outraged, half-prophetic moods, it traced the sordid political...
- Apr 1
- 2 min
More Diamond News: A Team By Any Other Name . . .
Many of you may be familiar with Stanford University’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI), a multi-year project directed...
- Mar 30
- 10 min
Field of More Bad Dreams: The Ongoing Degradation of Major League Baseball
Note: This is the first of the occasional sequel to Field of Bad Dreams: Ownership’s Assault on Major League Baseball. Today is Opening...
- Mar 5
- 5 min
The Monsters are Still on Maple Street
Sixty-three years ago today, CBS first aired the classic Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” one of Rod...
- Mar 1
- 6 min
The More Things Change . . .
On a mild summer night a little more than forty-five years ago, five teenage friends were driving around their suburban New England...