Gentilezza
I’d never won anything. I was an impulsive young bicycle racer at a twilight training race in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. I was eighteen in June 1988, and still learning the art of criterium racing in my second full season. The sound of pump chucks breaking the vacuum as they came off tire valve stems […]
Review: Jackie Robinson’s Real Gone
Jackie Robinson’s Real Gone: Baseball Poems of New York Matthew Johnson/Cornerstone Press/2026/90pp/IBSN: 9781968148669 *** “I’ll write about things and places and people I have loved … Ebbets Field, Jackie Robinson. A baseball team.” Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer “Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball? … Yes, yes, Jackie’s real gone.” Buddy Johnson, […]