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When my great-great-great grand­fa­ther William Can­dlish was born in Vir­ginia in 1804, there were 1 bil­lion peo­ple in the world. It had taken thou­sands of years for the world to reach that mile­stone of human sat­u­ra­tion. When my father was born in the 1930’s, the num­ber of peo­ple in the world had just passed the 2 […]

In the quiet of am empty cathe­dral, arche­types creep up on you. Yan­kee Sta­dium is that kind of place for a long-time base­ball fan. The imagery is mytho­log­i­cal; a mod­ern pan­theon of ordi­nary men who did un-ordinary things, who are held up in mem­ory as being some­thing more than men. Like Gods, they have their […]