Where is The Wire cast now? See the stars of HBO’s seminal drama nearly two decades later
The Wire cast reflects on character deaths: ‘I thought Omar was invincible’
Remember Record Theater in suburban Baltimore?
I remember Record Theater from the 1980s. I bought a CD player in 1984 and it was very hard to find CDs. As I recall, even a big store like Record Theater would have only about 50 different discs. There were no CD manufacturing plants in the US then. My copy of Born in the USA is made in Japan.
Here’s an article on the closing of the store:
Videos of Thomas Boswell’s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame
The great writer Thomas Boswell was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend.
Thomas Boswell’s speech in Cooperstown: ‘Thanks, baseball’ (Text of the speech)
I saw Boswell speak and sign books at Politics and Prose in Washington in 1989 when his book The Heart of the Order was released. He asked people if they were Orioles or Senators fans and would write an appropriate inscription – see mine below.
As I recall a woman said the book was for her nephew, a New York Mets fan. Boswell said something like “What do you want me to say? Good luck to obnoxious, arrogant Mets?”
Even more on four home runs in one game
Most home runs in a game: Complete list of 4-home run performances in MLB history
There have been only twenty of these – two this year which is the third season this has happened
update – now three times in 2025 which is a record. 21 times ever now.
Posts on Republicans and sex crimes
Amazing performance by the Orioles
The Orioles beat the worst team in baseball 18-0 on Saturday.
They had 18 hits (and only batted in 8 innings)
They had 26 baserunners including walks, hit by pitch and errors
They had 11 hits with runners in scoring position.
Politico list on all of the people who have left the Washington Post
Baseball Reference post on Rich Hill and Edwin Jackson
Both played for the Orioles. Hill is 45 and playing now
ESPN on college mascots – I like Keggy the Keg
Ryan McGee’s college football Mascot Power Rankings
More on Keggy the Keg, an informal mascot at Dartmouth. I learned about him in the column the post above links to.
Sad! 