Oh, That Swing. Fat and forty, Babe Ruth still had IT., by John Thorn

The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the '70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations. Outspoken players embraced free agency, openly advocated drug use, and even swapped wives.

Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s [Book]

Fiction from the Cleaver Archives

Having Babies {in Opposite World} - Women Living Well

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 1, July 1842

The Woman Who (Maybe) Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn - Podcast

Music Reviews — Lonesome Highway

Down Among Men, by Will Levington Comfort—A Project Gutenberg eBook

SAMWOY and the surreal lush lifeline of Pretty from the Awkward

His Old Chain and the opened bottled up feelings of Out in the Sun

Minnesota Twins Take 2 Of 3 From Colorado Rockies