Culture and Sports Writer

James Haley

2 articles 2001–2003

James Haley contributed to The Weekly Standard in the early 2000s, writing on topics ranging from community life to baseball. His pieces for the magazine touched on both American culture and sports.

Band of Neighbors

June 30, 2003 · James W. Haley Jr., Magazine, Books and Arts

The Bedford Boys

Last in the American League

June 18, 2001 · James W. Haley Jr., Magazine, Books and Arts

FOR BASEBALL GAMES PLAYED IN DISTANT CITIES in the 1930s and 1940s, local baseball announcers would read the telegraph wire to find out what had happened on each play, add canned applause and the recorded sound of a bat, and broadcast games as if they were really watching the players. Arch…