A Place for Dave's Stuff

Contributing Editor David Beck has a lot to say about the effects of free agency on our favorite sport. In short, he doesn't like it -- it being free agency, I mean, not baseball....

You can reach Dave at david.beck@wcdhs.net

• Installment 1 -- The Call For the Return of Real Baseball in the Major Leagues: The ongoing discourse of what must happen for common sense to come back to the world of professional sports
  
  
• Installment 2 -- The Call For the Return of Real Baseball in the Major Leagues, Part 2
  
  
• Installment 3 -- The Call For the Return of Real Baseball in the Major Leagues, Part 3
  
  
• Installment 4 -- Welcome to Dodgerworld
  
  
• Installment 5 -- More Major League Barfitude (Plus Some Rival Good Stuff...), and its companion, The Ten Best Things That Are Right With Sports
  
  
• Installment 6 -- The Bountiful Blessings of Free Agency Touch Pro Basketball
  
  
• Installment 7 -- Baseball Orpheus
  
  
• Installment 8 -- Happy New Millennium, Hot Stove Leaguers
  
  
• Installment 9 -- Baseball: The Natural... as in Natural Monopsony
  
  
• Installment 10 -- Joe Quixote and the 600-Ton Weight
  
  
• Installment 11 -- What's Good for the Yankees Is Good for Alex Rodriguez
  
  
• Installment 12 -- The Stacked Deck
  
  
• Installment 13 -- High on Steroids and Duplicity
  
  
• Installment 14 -- Bad Baseball
  

• Major League Baseball is Caw-Caw -- A lunatic raving
  
  
• Free Agency Is #!*%@#*!%#*&#! -- Dave's candid indictment
  
  
• Free Agency Is #!*%@#*!%#*&#!, Part II -- So full of love that we had to split just Part II into two parts: Part II-A and Part II-B, even though they're not called that
  
  
• Free Agency Is #!*%@#*!%#*&#!, The Final Chapter
  
  

• It's Still about Free Agency: Hey, the 2002 piece.
  
  
• Postmortem for Baseball, as Always: The 2001 piece.
  
  
• Reports of the WWF Yankees' Demise Were a Bit Premature: Dave's 2000 Postmortem piece. I think it has something to do with free agency at some point.
  
  
• Requiem for Baseball: Dave's 1999 Postmortem article details his sports celibacy.
  
  
• The Disastrous 1998 Baseball Season: Dave's 1998 Postmortem piece takes a look at not only the Giants but at all the major happenings (up to the postseason). As you can tell by the title, this is a jolly, happy, carefree piece, 'cause Dave's such a Pollyanna.

• Captain Kirk Doll -- The literature from the back of the package containing Gregg's birthday present
  
  
• NFL Team Names -- Updated for the 2002 season
  
  
• On the Way to Gooperstown -- Dave's essay on the soon-to-be-opened San Francisco Giants Tweaks Hall of Fame
  
  
• Fair Ball by Bob Costas, as observed by David Beck.
  
  

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