Articles by Stephen Metzger

Arts & Culture

Basketball diary

And the seasons they go round and round—Joni Mitchell December, 1891, the YMCA International Training School, Springfield, Massachusetts. It’s cold, northeastern-U.S. cold, and the association’s young Christian men need a way to work out indoors […]

Arts & Culture

Baseball has been very good to me

As a boy growing up in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s, I had two heroes: my dad and Willie Mays—the Say Hey Kid, the great slugger, center fielder and base stealer for the San […]