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All this is the result of true obsession (James says he thinks about baseball "virtually every waking hour of my life"), and the results of this continuing affliction emerge annually as the Baseball Abstract. Though less compelling than some of its nine predecessors, this year's version includes some refreshing...
The formula sounds simple enough. But there is a hidden subtlety in it, which lies in the business of motivation. It is sufficient unto the length of an eight-minute animated short subject that Wile E. Coyote have an inexplicable obsession with capturing a pestiferous bird. If, on the other...
In the '70s and '80s, real estate became an obsession with the Baby Boomers. Demand outstripped supply: while new housing starts rose by only 11% in the 1970s, the total of outstanding mortgage loans tripled. Those who rented in that inflationary decade watched helplessly as the price of homes took...
Love may well be life's most blinding obsession, but Colwin is so obsessed with her subject that for the first six of her eight stories she actually neglects the players. Flesh fades before wordplay as he, elegant in his tweed coat and paisley scarf, embraces her, a slob in...
Two batters later, DePalo singled in Bob Kay, who--in keeping with the Crimson's obsession with speed--stole both second and third bases.