The induction speech is the one time when your favorite baseball hero, a sphinx-like figure on the field, appears human and vulnerable and summons the courage and the words to express who he is and how he got here.
Not long ago, the idea that Major League Soccer franchises would pop up in cities across America, each competing for international talent. Soccer was a dream to some, and a joke to others. But cricket? It’s too complicated.
"Turn around time is an alpinist’s notion – that preplanned moment when, no matter what, it’s time to reverse course and head back. The principle acknowledges an unstoppable coming darkness."