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The Antidote to TL; DR: NL; ETR (Not Long, Easy to Read)

Beyond a doubt, of the 80-odd stories to which I contributed for Time magazine in the early 2000s, the one that was most widely read was a July 2003 blurb about Retrosheet, the fantastic repository of Major League Baseball game-by-game accounts. And it’s not because I wrote so beautifully, though I deployed a serviceable collection […]