I agree with the Ernie Robers fan about Harold Kaese. The first columnist to make intelligent use of statistics, and probably the last to make them interesting.

He started at the Transcript, and wrote a history of the Braves that’s a must-read for Boston baseball fans, given that the present owners of the Sawx are less interested in preserving an historic part of the city’s baseball heritage that is fast slipping away as the remaining Braves fans reach their dotage than in “branding,” turning a public way into their own food court, changing game shirt designs to create a market for overpriced “official” attire, and begging us all to call their cramped dump of a stadium “America’s most beloved ball park.”