FAST LEARNER

Hunter Greene has thrown 100 mph since he was a teenager. Last year, by learning to really pitch, he fulfilled his potential as the Reds' ace.

SPEED THRILLS

Once unthinkable, eye-popping pitching velocity has become the norm

FAST COMPANY

Tennessee has produced its share of hard-throwers. Enter Liam Doyle and 'the best fastball in the country.'

LAYING A FOUNDATION

How Kansas used junior college transfers to build a top 25 program

WORLD FARE

Which MLB organizations are signing the most international prospects?

LEFT TURN

Up to 100 mph, Jack Bauer enters rare velocity range for prep lefthanders

SPEED KING

The incredible Aroldis Chapman stands alone for pure velocity and durability

HEAT WAVE

Elite fastball velocity puts the Mets' Raimon Gomez on a fast track

From Phenom To The Farm

FORMER BALLPLAYERS REFLECT ON PRO SUCCESS AND FAILURE

ESCAPE FROM KHARTOUM

A family of nine's desperate attempt to find safety in Sudan.

GUITAR HEROES

The duo that collected a secret trove of instruments heading to the Met.

DOCTOR'S ORDERS

It used to be progressives who distrusted experts. What happened?

DEAL OR NO DEAL

Barry Diller recalls a career built as much on serendipity as on strategy.

YOU'RE KILLING ME

Pavement inspires a strange, ironic, loving bio-pic.

ALL THE BILLIONAIRE'S MEN

Is Jeff Bezos selling out the Washington Post?

Fairy Pools

As soon as she touched down in Scotland, she believed in fairies. No, as soon as the rock and velvet of Inverness rushed up to her where she was falling, a long way through the hagstone hole of a cloud, and she plunged down into the center of the cloud and stayed there.

HEAD CASES

Two productions of Strauss's “Salome,” in New York.

Mark Singer on John Bainbridge's "The Super-Americans"

\"The Super-Americans\"

PRODUCTION MEETING

Before filming each episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” we held a production meeting.

Aidan Maese-Czeropski

The former Senate staffer became infamous when a video of him having sex on Capitol Hill leaked. He doesn't regret much.

Articles of Faith: Rachel Donadio

Pizzagate at the Vatican MAGA Catholics play a familiar game of conspiratorial dissent, but to what end?

HOW TRUMP DEFEATED COLUMBIA

The inside story of an unconditional surrender.

Our Patron Saint of Primi

At Santi, Michael White proves once more that he is among the city's most talented creators of la cucina Italiana.

Oaxaca on Bank Street

A designer channels his family's ancestral home in his restored West Village pied-à-terre.

Sufjan Stevens Is Doing Okay

The self-declared “poster child of death in the music world” lost his partner and then got sick. But he's making it a practice to stay optimistic.

CRITICS

Alison Willmore on Friendship ... Kathryn VanArendonk on Forever ... Justin Davidson on the Davis Center at the Harlem Meer.

Social Studies: Carrie Battan

It's Time to Kill the Casual Workplace In the war of the office, etiquette is actually your friend.

Tale As Old As Teens

A Judy Blume adaptation captures the timeless specifity of adolescent love.

My 82-Year Old Father Had So Many Girlfriends He Couldn't Believe His Luck

IT WAS ONLY AFTER my father died that I got access to his conversations with the creatures who fleeced him.

The Opinion That Ate the Paper

Under Kathleen Kingsbury, the Times’ “Opinion” section has doubled in size. But no one can say for sure what kind of publication she is building.