Cup of Coffee: August 13, 2021

Tim Anderson gives a "The Natural" ending to a homer-happy Field of Dreams game, Chris Davis retires, Jake Arrieta goes bye-bye, there are broken cities in our midst.

Good morning!

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my public announcement of the launch of this newsletter, so the first people who got annual subscriptions when this thing kicked off began renewing. For a lot of reasons, seeing those renewals come in in real time yesterday felt even better than seeing the sign-ups a year ago.

A year ago part of me…