From last week
"From Way Out in Right Field," by my favorite baseball writer — and Marah fan — Dave Shenin in Friday's Washington Post.
On the chance to draft Jeffrey Maier, once the boy whose outfield catch possibly doomed the Orioles to years of failure, and now a major league prospect … "It was as if Angelos had suddenly grasped the enormity of what was now in front of him — an extraordinary opportunity to alter fate and, in doing so, recast it to one's advantage."

June 18th, 2009 at 8:22 AM
[...] fend off nihilism? Nats beat reporter Chico Harlan, finally a worthy daily Post baseball successor to Dave Shenin, has developed a coping technique somewhere between being and nothingness. Ledes on recent [...]