Adieu, Street and Smith's

I drove over to the neighborhood corner newsstand on Thursday to buy my annual supply of baseball magazines. Athlon and Lindy’s were there but not Street and Smith’s. Maybe it was hiding behind the latest issue of Kink? I was too embarrassed to ask. Back home, I checked or Street and Smith’s on Amazon. Nope. I could get a 1966 edition autographed by Ron Swoboda but nothing from 2021. Next, I did a Google search for any stories on the demise of yet another baseball mainstay—think Baseball Register, Who’s Who in Baseball—but nothing. Something dating to my childhood just slipped away unremarked on and unmourned. Oh, well. On the bright side, both Athlon and Lindy’s pick the White Sox to win the Central Division, only for those damn’ Yankees to advance to the World Series. Now, that’s a piece of my childhood I could definitely do without.