We’ve Got a Magician Playing Second Base
Javier Baez during the 2016 World Series Photo: Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune To understand the magic of Javy Baez—the disbelief-suspending stabs and skids; the gravity-mocking freeze-frame moments in which, levitated, he still throws with force, just as he does from his knees, his backside, his stomach; the tags, quick as a close-up card trick, snapped down … Read more