“Sherman, set the Wayback machine to Will Swarts‘ weirdest old stories.”
If you’ve come this far, enjoy a few from the vault. These come from the sadly defunct publications MinorLeagueNews.com, the esteemed and much missed Far Eastern Economic Review, and the still-ticking Reed College alumni magazine, which published two of the craziest stories I’ve ever written.
Baseball Blows Back Into Brooklyn
That first Brooklyn Cyclones game was a magic night, the air heady with sea breezes and the nostalgia of thousands of old men recalling the Brooklyn Dodgers of their youth. It couldn’t have ended better.
Mongol Invasion – In Central Park!
The Far Eastern Economic Review asked me to write about the fun when Mongolia’s foreign ministry decided to export its equivalent of the Olympics to New York.
I reviewed Dunya Restaurant in Lhasa, Tibet, for the Far Eastern Economic Review. It’s still going strong, all these years later!
Ninth-Inning Conviction
Never a sports powerhouse, Reed College’s baseball team wasn’t picky about its opponents, which included a team of prisoners who took on the college boys inside the walls of the Oregon State Penitentiary. The sidebar at the end ought to be a movie. I’ve never heard anything like it.