So, how is it that of all the New York reporters, it’s Michiko Kakutani who had the best sense of perspective and baseball history? The Times’ book reviewer?
Yankees fans have been guilty of seeing the team’s history as one bright line threading its way back through the annals of time, back to Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, while forgetting the drought years, say, that Don Mattingly suffered through for so long. (Link)
Kakutani’s writing is always great, by the way; I’ve just never seen her extend it into sport.