For the first time as “Outsiders” they are scrambling to find a way in, to get close to Bob Filner, to somehow persuade the new mayor that bygones should be bygones and we all need to come together in behalf of the city we profess to love.
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were reality, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. – Nicolo Machiavelli, The 8th Institute
The Boston Red Sox Charity by John Henry, Tom Werner, Larry Lucchino and their partners, the team has contributed more than $52 million to charity, the most by any team in baseball, and probably in all professional sports.
I started writing for the Presidio Sentinel in 2005. I did so at the invitation of Chuck Fox. Last night he passed away. He was a lovely man, who somehow.
The item that follows is more than a baseball note. Baseball teams that play in ballparks funded in whole or part by public money are thereby inherently fair game.
The love that blacks have for our country, their sense of patriotism, given all that’s happened and continues to happen to African-Americans, never ceases to amaze me, and is a constant challenge to my own sense of patriotism.
