I met Ed Kranepool once when I was a kid. It was the early 1990s, and he was sitting at a card table in the bowels of the Trenton Thunder’s new Mercer County Waterfront Park. The Thunder (Double-A affiliate of the Red Sox at the time) had opened the stadium 40 minutes from our house […]
Author: Sara Novic
Mrs. Met Won’t Get Us Out of This One: Discrimination, Rule Changes, and the Future of Baseball Fandom
Opening Day is fast upon us and MLB rule tweaks abound. This year MLB continued to tackle the safety of its players and the speed of the game in a set of new rules released last month. One revamp near and dear to Mets fans’ hearts involves tighter guidelines for sliding into second base. The […]