Subject: Little League Baseball Inc.

• Three More House Republicans Demand Obama Prove Citizenship

  It turns out at least four state House Republicans have promised to join a crackpot legal action demanding that Barack Obama produce his birth certificate. Among them is--you guessed it!--Rep. Stacey Campfield, and also the GOP caucus chair, Glen Casada. Why not the entire caucus? Here's a sobering thought: These are the people who were almost running the House. Pith in the Wind just talked with one of our House conspiracy theorists, Frank Niceley, a farmer from Strawberry Plains who once told a

  February 12, 2009

• Megan Barry Strikes Out on High, Hanging (Learning) Curve

  Scouting Report: Can't hit the breaking stuff.Metro council is like Little League. It's easy to root for the runt tripping over his uniform, harder to cheer on the pituitary case who dwarfs the umpire. Such is the case with Megan Barry.Barry is smart, likes green things and isn't afraid to call b.s. when the Mayor slips a fiver to his friends. In Little League terms, she's the kid who has to bring her birth certificate to every game just to prove she's legal. Last Tuesday, though, Barry was one

  March 11, 2009

• Rep. Eric Swafford's bid to make Tennessee a laughingstock

  February 19, 2009

• Pack Rats

  What’s wrong with buying containers for unused jelly jars?

  January 10, 2008

• The Spin

  October 18, 2007

• Buy Out, Eat In

  At Fresh Market, prepared foods rescue moms from resorting to concession stand fare

  November 4, 2004

• Bleacher-Sitting Daddy

  Waxing poetic on the final phase of a daughter’s softball career

  May 24, 2007

• Kids

  October 7, 2004

• The Final Score

  A sentimental dad takes yard art to new extremes

  February 8, 2007

• This Is Summer Food?

  A dispiriting tour through ballpark concession stands and new Cool Springs restaurants

  July 29, 2004

• A Room of One’s Own

  For lifelong collectors, a shoebox isn’t enough

  September 28, 2006

• Diamonds Aren’t Forever

  Bittersweet reflections on being a ball daddy (and making a 6-year-old cry)

  March 2, 2006

• Under Our Skins

  Gregg Araki's harrowing drama examines the complicated repercussions of child sexual abuse

  June 30, 2005

• Seeing Red

  Wildly successful tomato festival returns to East Nashville this summer

  June 16, 2005

• Life Happens at the Ballpark

  My kids have grown up at Greer Stadium, where our lives are chronicled by shutouts, hot dogs and the smell of funnel cake

  May 19, 2005

• Dining Notes

  April 21, 2005

• People and Places

  October 7, 2004

• Food Drive

  A culinary excursion through Nashville's southeast quadrant turns up three new ethnic eateries worth visiting

  September 2, 2004

• Fair-Weather Friends

  Who's got the best forecast in town? Depends on who pays for it

  May 6, 2004

• Perfectly Spiced

  Bistro Shakti in Franklin serves alluring, refreshingly innovative Indian food in a pleasingly casual setting

  July 10, 2003

• Truth in Pandering

  The boll weevil makes its way into the U.S. Senate race

  June 6, 2002

• Local Elections for Dummies

  Why the offices of sheriff and juvenile court clerk really do matter

  May 2, 2002

• Music Notes

  Steve Earle talks about his new odds-and-sods Sidetracks album

  April 4, 2002

• The Fabricator

  Local combover honored

  January 10, 2002

• Troublemakers

  Those TV weather warnings are nothing more than a distraction

  August 30, 2001

• Cat Trouble

  How far will you go to save a family pet?

  August 31, 2000

• Boys Vs. Girls

  Gender-skewed softball team forfeits its way to the top

  August 24, 2000

• Goodbye, Sandlot

  Gains and losses on the playing field

  August 3, 2000

• Heads and Tales

  A journey through some of Nashville's old-fashioned barbershops

  May 25, 2000

• One More Day Of Summer

  A gamer's life in baseball

  May 18, 2000

• Women at Work

  Softball heavy-hitters teach girls how to play the game

  April 20, 2000

• Kill the Umps!

  July 22, 1999

• Rules of the Game

  July 15, 1999

• Warning! Warning!

  June 17, 1999

• Redneck, Redneck, Redneck, Redneck

  April 22, 1999

• Artists' Cooperative

  January 7, 1999

• Frankly Speaking

  November 26, 1998

• A League All Their Own

  June 25, 1998

• All You Need Is Glove

  October 23, 1997

• Part-Time=Half-Assed

  August 21, 1997

• A Smoke-Out

  July 10, 1997

• Pitched Battle

  August 8, 1996

• Dog Harry

  June 13, 1996

• Biographies

  October 12, 1995

• Johnny Get Your Gun: Lawmakers May Open Playgrounds to Weapons

  Sen. Mae BeaversState lawmakers are pulling the old switcheroo on the unsuspecting public. In the House, they voted to give cities and counties the option of voting to allow handguns into their playgrounds and parks. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, they're changing the bill to allow guns on playgrounds unless local governments vote to outlaw them. Little Johnny might want to start wearing his Kevlar vest to Little League games. According to Sen. Mae Beavers, the committee's chair (we know,

  May 6, 2009

• Parent Finds Donelson Christian Academy Summer Reading Offensive

  Last month, Autumn Catlett's nine-year-old son Joey* approached his mom carrying Jackie and Me, a book about a kid who travels back in time to shadow Jackie Robinson as he breaks the color barrier. *Not his real name. Although not yet done with third grade, Joey had already gotten 47 pages into Jackie, one of three books on his Donelson Christian Academy's fourth-grade summer reading list. An avid reader, Joey loved the trophy that Donelson gave out for students who reached a certain book quo

  June 18, 2009

• What Were They Thinking? Guns Laws Backfiring on Legislators

  Our legislature may have succeeded in stamping out Little League baseball in Murfreesboro.It looks like the legislature's Republican majority has created a fine little mess for itself by enacting all those gun laws this session. As Pith's own Betsy Phillips learned on a trip to the wild hinterlands of West Tennessee, even many hillbillies think the laws are stupid. Lawmakers made the mistake of supposing the loudmouths in the gun lobby speak for the majority of voters. "They did a very good lo

  June 30, 2009

• Gun bills backfire, Republicans meet in secret and more

  July 2, 2009

• Egerton Joins Rayburn in Taking Up Arms Against Guns in Bars; Hearing Scheduled for July 7

  Author John Egerton, an esteemed observer and chronicler of Southern foodways, distributed this email this morning in reference to Randy Rayburn's last-ditch stand to thwart legislation allowing guns in bars: Friends, when some of us met for supper at Second Harvest Food Bank one evening last winter, I had in mind several projects that we might pursue more productively by working together than we could by working as individuals or in small groups. At the time, I didn't imagine that one such

  July 2, 2009

• Between the Buried and Me at RCKTWN

  January 7, 2010