I grew up near Los Angeles in a baseball-loving family. We bled Dodger blue, went to games at Chavez Ravine and thrilled to Tommy LaSorda’s passionate leadership of his team. Like most people in the L.A. basin, I drove everywhere, usually by myself, on congested freeways. I hated the way congestion wasted my time, and [...]
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Tags: baseball·San Diego Padres
I was delighted to find this morning that Andrew Brown, the Oakland Athletics pitcher who was the subject of my recent post on cool commuting, wrote me in response. When he says some of his fellow A’s are now also using BART, I’m impressed as always by how much we influence those around us with [...]
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My carpool-pals don’t just help me save gas money and carbon emissions, they also pass good information on to me. Thanks to my baseball-loving ‘pool, I’ve learned about Andrew Brown, the relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics who uses his bicycle and BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to get to the ballpark for [...]
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