Jane Lee

I wrote for the first time in a long time about the thing that has given me so much. nytimes.com/athletic/57942…

Cheers to Oakland. This pic from the Coliseum, established in 2018 with two of my favorite people.

Keep thinking how I wish I could call up Mychael Urban. He once wrote, “Good for Ball, Bad for Ball. You can attach either label to everything in life.” There was so much Good for Ball at the Coliseum. We don’t need to mention He Who Is Bad For Ball. nytimes.com/athletic/57942…

Memories of Oakland, from @TheAthletic staff: *Marc Carig: nytimes.com/athletic/57862… *Eno Sarris: nytimes.com/athletic/57742… *Melissa Lockard: nytimes.com/athletic/57547… *Jane Lee: nytimes.com/athletic/57942…

Baseball’s most famous Las Vegas native has a lot of thoughts on MLB coming to his hometown. “I feel bad for the A’s and their fans,” Bryce Harper said. And, for many reasons, he’s not convinced a relocation will work: theathletic.com/4611968/2023/0…

Spoke with Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick (⁦@nlbmprez⁩) about the firing of A's broadcaster Glen Kuiper, who used a racial epithet on the air. “I was hoping it would not come to that because in my heart it was a mistake." More: mercurynews.com/2023/05/22/neg…

“I think the game is better because of Sarah.” It’s a beautiful new Starkville. The great ⁦@SlangsOnSports⁩ on how her baseball family is helping her live with ALS and rallying around her to fight it. Apple: bit.ly/ApTABS Spotify: bit.ly/SpTABS

Meet the Crash Davis of the broadcast booth. Johnny Doskow spent 30 years calling minor-league games while dreaming of making The Show. His big break, of all things, was surgery on that magnificent nose. theathletic.com/4446269/2023/0…

I know what images you’ve been fed for the last couple of years. But get one thing straight. The A’s aren’t moving to Las Vegas because the fan base is unworthy. It is the owner who doesn’t measure up. Column: theathletic.com/4433107/2023/0…

Earlier this year, stats guru Sarah Langs announced she had ALS, a rapidly progressing neurological disease that has no cure. Then she kept living her baseball-obsessed life. On Langs, the people who love her, and how even now, baseball remains the best: theathletic.com/3987985/2022/1…

The role of the sideline reporter is crucial to any broadcast, but there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes you’ll never see. The great ⁦@MollyAMcGrath⁩ let me shadow her for a night in the SEC. We logged 10,000 steps and 4-plus miles: theathletic.com/3901449/2022/1…

Scott Spiezio was the Angels' World Series hero 20 years ago. For 13 years, he battled addiction. His children were adopted. He lost his money. He was arrested. He nearly died. Today he's clean & putting his life back together. Story from Morris, IL.: theathletic.com/3578407/2022/0…

Excited to be transitioning into a talent development role with @TheAthletic this week. While I’ll miss being in the trenches with the MLB staff, I’m looking forward to nurturing our newsroom and being a coach, mentor, listener and cheerleader for our writers and editors.

Only one Bahamian has ever pitched in MLB. Pirates prospect Tahnaj Thomas wants to be the second. And he wants to do it for his mother, who weathered years of chemotherapy -- and who died just before he signed a pro deal -- to send him toward his dream. theathletic.com/3497066/2022/0…

The challenge was to summarize your team’s activity at the trade deadline in one paragraph. The Rockies were the one team that did jack squat. Yet @nickgroke, national treasure that he is, nailed the damn thing. theathletic.com/3474257/2022/0…

"You only have to spend five minutes around Tim at a ballpark to be infused with that feeling that he falls in love with baseball again every day. And because he does, he brings the rest of us along with him." Me on @Kurkjian_ESPN - on his HOF weekend theathletic.com/3440209/2022/0…

We took Marla Hooch to the batting cages to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "A League of Their Own." What a hitter! What a storyteller! My story for @TheAthletic theathletic.com/3384648/2022/0…