By Allen Barra On a bright Nov. 6 morning 140 years ago, a "jerky little train," as someone later described it, left Princeton, N.J. , at 9 bound for New Brunswick, about 20 miles to the north. Full Article at Wall Street Journal

-- Did Johnny Damon's dash to third base in the ninth inning of last night's game take away Brad Lidge's slider and thus force him to throw the fastball at Alex Rodriguez which turned the game around? Full Article at Village Voice

Allen Barra captures much of the misguided motivation behind the 1994-1995 Major League Baseball strike ("Baseball's Costliest Walk," Leisure & Arts, Oct. 28). Full Article at Wall Street Journal

First off, we'd like to thank the New York tabloids for getting the Phillies all worked up. Full Article at Village Voice

As Roy Edroso pointed out the other day, most children's programming in the New York area during the early and mid-1960s was dreck. Full Article at Village Voice

By Allen Barra As anniversaries go, it's one most baseball fans would like to forget. Full Article at Wall Street Journal