Essays
History & Baseball Intermingle
Reuven Goldfarb integrates the legacies of Robert F. Kennedy and Don Drysdale.
Essays
Baseball Kabbalah
Reuven Goldfarb believes that players, fanatics, and worshippers alike - are blessed with moments of transcendence and vindication, a reward for their commitment and justification for all their toil and pain.
Essays
“Who’s That Poke´Mon?” “Sailor Moon Will Be Right Back!”: An Introduction (For Adults) To Two Of Children’s Tv’s Biggest Hits
Reuven Goldfarb shares his impressions of children's TV shows that offer an alternative to the world as managed by clumsy adults, a better, more harmless world, though one still rife with passion and conflict, but one in which goodness not only can but does repeatedly triumph, and the wounds of one day are healed by the next.
Poems
Ozzie Smith Retires
Reuven Goldfarb recalls Osborne Earl Smith was a baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996. On June 19, 1996, Smith tearfully said he would retire after the Cardinals’ final game of the season.
Poems
Between Two Cities
Reuven Goldfarb recalls The Brooklyn Dodgers celebrating the winning of game seven of 1955 World Series on October 4, 1955 .
About Reuven
P.S. 193: Gil Hodges School
P.S. 193 is an elementary school in Kings County, Brooklyn, New York City. Its students range from Pre-Kindergarten to fifth grade, and the school provides for the educational needs of approximately 900 children. It is Read more…