Pete Martin
Pete Martin
Recent Stories
Martin: A day that belongs to all
September 11 belongs to no single group — it belongs to us all.
A super summer of new records
There was a time when the world was normal. When people and things and events existed in regular shapes, sizes and manners. No more.
My year at YDN: Did someone say penile frostbite?
We’re at the end of the year, and I’m at the end of my time in this space.
Needed relief found on the fringes of sport
This has been a tough year for Yale. In trying times, sports are enjoyable entertainment and valuable diversions. And the lighter side of sports is even more refreshing when relief is so welcome.
Stadiums host football, baseball and the Pope
See the Pope at second base! No joke, the Yankee Stadium crowd and millions watching on TV will get to see his Holiness take the infield this Sunday. But he’s not displacing the second baseman — he’s celebrating Mass.
Before Olympics, Yale should put pressure on China
With the world scheduled to arrive in Beijing for the Olympics in a few months, China’s abuses of human rights cannot go ignored.
What stats can’t tell us about baseball or life
As Yale accepted another class of students this week, I thought back to when I was an applicant, and to my college essay.
Sports as usual:sex, scandal and March Madness
We’re amazed when we find out that politicians can take off their suits and break some laws after hours. It helps when, like Gov. Spitzer, they are known for cracking down on moral and legal misfits, or when they are the president of the United States. But the crimes they commit, and the images the media share, are no match for those in which athletes involve themselves.
Forget NYC and Boston: Root for the home team
New Haven is no man’s land — a misnomer, maybe, but still the best term we have for a city caught in the middle of a heated border dispute.
Unexpected bond sprang from Mets, father’s coaching
In middle school, I found a new athletic passion when I began playing baseball. Other boys around me had been playing for years, but my family had never signed me up to play.