Detroit Free Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- Everything he owns is lying at his feet, a bag of clothes, a bag of cassette tapes, and an ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- I am writing this column in the most frightening position I have ever been in, some 200 feet above the ground in Candlestick Park, which just moments ago was shaking as if the entire stadium were on a wagon being wheeled over cobblestone. An earthquake, they call it out here, with some regularity, and even as I type these words, the stadium occasionally rolls -- aftershocks -- with the concrete, the steel supports, everything shaking, as if suddenly there is no such thing as sturdy, not anymore.

SAN FRANCISCO -- I am writing this column in the most frightening position I have ever been in, some 200 feet ...

"God, I love baseball."Robert Redford in "The Natural" SAN FRANCISCO -- Remember in that movie, when Roy Hobbs, ...

"God, I love baseball."Robert Redford in "The Natural" SAN FRANCISCO -- Remember in that movie, when Roy Hobbs, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- It is not for me, as a sports writer with ketchup stains on his shirt and a screaming editor on the other end of the phone, to take sides in this World Series. But I am. Taking sides. Actually, I'm taking a front. Rick Reuschel's front. Actually, just the part from his chest to his belt. I like it. Reminds me of my Uncle Mort, the pickle man from Baltimore.

EAST LANSING -- The ball sat innocently on the 1-yard line, as if to say,"Take me, I'm yours." But who was it ...

It occurs to me that we are entering that magical time of year when every major sport on the face of the planet is ...