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Letter: Response to Edelson ’29: Being ‘ever true to Brown’ means attending athletics
By James Schapiro | October 21To the Editor:
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Letter: Biden should compromise with progressives. And he already has.
By James Schapiro | April 19To the Editor: I agree with Arvind Veluvali ’20 that if moderate Democrats "are willing to make compromises to the right, they should be willing to do so to the left.” Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, must make compromises with the progressive wing of the party. If ...
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Schapiro '19: The greatest Brown graduation story ever
By James Schapiro | April 22I’m in the late innings of the last start of my career, and the manager is coming out to get me. I’m done, he says, and I can hit the clubhouse and start preparing for graduation while some rookie takes over where I left off. It’s been four years for me at Brown and at The Brown Daily Herald, ...
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Schapiro '19: Spend senior spring watching the Mets
By James Schapiro | April 15It is the second semester of my senior year, which had me thinking last week about what I did during the spring of my senior year of high school. Specifically, I went to 14 Mets games and wrote about the Mets every other night for a blog my friend and I had started, and still managed to pass all my ...
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Schapiro '19: Robot umps now!
By James Schapiro | April 8As Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch reluctantly left his dugout to confront the home plate umpire who was practically baiting him to come out, his mind was probably swirling with justified expletives and anger. But behind all of that, what was he thinking? Was he thinking about what has been becoming ...
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Schapiro '19: Brown baseball deserves your attention for a day
By James Schapiro | March 15Even if you love playing baseball, it can’t be easy to play at Brown. In less than three months, the team plays a 40-game season. The Bears fly around the country in February, from Kentucky to South Carolina to Florida looking for warm places to play. Then, in March, they settle back down in Providence ...
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Schapiro '19: The players make baseball
By James Schapiro | February 22So Manny Machado got a job. Great. I really mean that — it’s a fantastic thing for baseball that Machado signed a ten-year, $300 million contract with the San Diego Padres. Along with Alex Bregman and Nolan Arenado, Machado is one of the top third basemen in the game. He has 175 home runs at the ...
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Schapiro '19: Don’t change extra-innings ball
By James Schapiro | February 7Well, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is at it again. Here’s Ken Rosenthal, reporting Tuesday in The Athletic: “As part of a Jan. 14 proposal to the players’ union on pace of play, baseball suggested a rule requiring pitchers to face a minimum of three batters, sources told The Athletic. … If no ...
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Lukawski '22 powers Bears to victory
By James Schapiro | February 1The women’s swimming and diving team hosted Cornell Saturday in its last non-playoff meet of the season, and after honoring Bruno’s graduating class in a ceremony, the teams took to the pool. But the star of the day wasn’t a senior: It was Audrey Lukawski ’22, who won two individual events. Lukawksi’s ...
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Schapiro '19: In the baseball’s hall: heroes or history?
By James Schapiro | January 25The Baseball Writers’ Association of America released its Hall of Fame balloting results earlier this week, and the vote did the institution proud. Four players were inducted, all of whom were deserving; it was, in essence, a nice, happy Hall of Fame class. But beneath the bubbly exterior, there are ...
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