Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, who died on Sept. 26 at age 86, was so good that even his baseball card made spectacular plays. And he was such a good guy that someone could halfway believe the very white Robinson and his black teammate Frank Robinson really were kin.

Usually, the end of a famous athlete’s career brings sadness and nostalgia. Fans beam with appreciation that a much-heralded athlete will no longer be on the field and will fade into memory as they move on to the next phase of their life. Female soccer player Megan Rapinoe called it a career on Sunday night after the women’s national team’s match against South Africa. And much of the nation is glad she is gone.

Veto-proof supermajorities in both the House and Senate sent legislation to President Biden intended to stop the administration's move to defund shooting-sports programs in schools through its interpretation of a previous law.

A few weeks ago, as I was getting out of a taxi, a bike messenger whipped by me, and I was thrown to the ground. I hit the concrete pretty hard, but I landed on my posterior. As a century of cartoons has taught us, that is a funny way to fall and one that causes no real pain. That’s untrue, as I discovered. It hurt like hell, with shooting pains down my right leg. I had to hobble along for several blocks, finally limping into the subway, where I was lucky to find a seat.

TIGRE, Argentina — Millennials and zoomers wave bright yellow "Don't Tread On Me" flags at truckers and bus drivers enthusiastically beeping their horns while passing the rally. The man of the hour, distinguished by a famous mop of hair replicated by some wigs in the crowd, carries an enormous $100 greenback.

“No f***ing way can a Lakers show end in 1984,” Jeff Pearlman, the author of the book HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is based on, posted on Twitter in August in a bid to save the show by attracting more viewers. But it did end there, thanks to HBO executives, who were also responsible for the show’s clunky name. Pearlman’s book, like the 1980s Lakers themselves, was called Showtime, but the big brains at Home Box Office could not bring themselves to name the series after their premium television network rival, Showtime. For Lakers fans watching Winning Time, the villains of the show will be those HBO executives. By canceling the show at the end of its second season, those executives have created the best show about the Lakers losing ever made.

“Part of remembering,” historian David Blight once observed, “is forgetting.” Perhaps nowhere is this truer than the nation of Poland, where so-called memory wars have been waged over the country’s role in the Holocaust. These battles are at the heart of Judy Rakowsky’s new book, Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II.