BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ, Author at BINJ

ROOKIE YEAR

The BASE location on the edge of Roxbury, a neighborhood that is approximately 60 percent black and 23 percent Latino, is helping to bridge the gap and bring baseball to communities that have been excluded from the sport. But that’s not all they do.

BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ September 5, 2018

FULL SWING

Photos by Lehigh Photo Service Playing hardball in Florida with Lil Papi and the other stars of Red Sox Nation’s one-of-a-kind women’s fantasy camp The sun is overhead, so bright it’s easy to lose a baseball popped high into the sky. It’s January, but Florida January, which means I’m comfortable

BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ April 4, 2018

CURL TO ACTION

Photo by Brynne Quinlan The legacy of Massachusetts curling clubs and the making of a Paralympian “I can make you a Paralympian in a year.” Those were some of the first words Tony Colacchio ever said to Steve Emt. Colacchio, a wheelchair curling instructor, had seen Emt effortlessly rolling himself up

BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ March 8, 2018

HANCOCKS, KNOCKERS, AND SHAMROCKS (A GAY BOWL DISPATCH)

Photos by Patrick Lentz Photography Friendship, inclusion, and flag football at Gay Bowl XVII Danny Tyrrell was a high school athlete who quit sports in his junior year of high school because, he says, “It was too hard to be an athlete and an out gay man in a locker

BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ October 11, 2017

LAWMAKERS PUSH TO RENAME THE YAWKEY MBTA STATION

This short feature is a sequel to “The Yawkey Way,” which caused some controversy, raised discussions, spurred subsequent coverage, earned attention from the larger sports and journalism communities, and was ultimately recognized as a notable story in the 2017 edition of Best American Sports Writing. Tom Yawkey has long been considered by

BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ August 17, 2017

THE YAWKEY WAY

From ignoramus radio talkers to bigoted fans and a checkered past, Boston baseball has a race problem Kalek Briscoe worked as a bartender in the State Street Pavilion inside Fenway Park for a decade. When he heard in May that Baltimore Orioles player Adam Jones told Boston media that a

BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ July 20, 2017