New York Times

Fans Expect Access to Players, but Do They Really Want to Listen?

New York Times
September 22, 2017
By Doug Glanville

The benefit of time and patience often rewards us with the true significance of an athlete’s activism.

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Who Gets to Call the Game?

New York Times

July 29, 2017

By Doug Glanville

You don’t need to be a former player — or a particular gender — to analyze baseball.

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What Makes (and Unmakes) an All-Star?

New York Times

July 11, 2017

By Doug Glanville

A career is more complex than the stat line on the back of your baseball card.

I never was an All-Star, but I was on a few ballots. In both 1998 and 1999, when I was among the leaders in all of baseball in hits just before the break, my manager with the Phillies, Terry Francona, made a valiant effort to lobby the National League All-Star manager on my behalf. To no avail.

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Big Little League

New York Times

June 23, 2017

By Doug Glanville

Sure, there was a bat and a glove, but was it baseball? Then, one day, I looked up and realized that it actually was.

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Jimmy Piersall’s Raw and Memorable Coaching

New York Times
June 9, 2017
by Doug Glanville

Sometimes he would hide in orange groves near the ball field to make sure we were “executing.”

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Red Sox, Racism and Adam Jones

New York Times

May 5, 2017

by Doug Glanville

When I heard that the Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was showered with racial epithets by fans at Fenway Park on Monday, it was easy for me to roll my eyes and say, “Of course — Boston.”

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Tebow’s Test of Faith

New York Times

April 14, 2017

by Doug Glanville

There are many aspects of baseball that set it apart from other sports. I often cite these differences as related to its pace, perspective, nuance and calculus. Yet baseball is also a game of faith, an understanding my playing days only reinforced. Inside its daily ecosystem, your beliefs are tested like in no other game. In part because it comes at you every day.