400 years ago, New York City was New Amsterdam—outpost of the Dutch West India Company. 100 years ago, Babe Ruth experienced the bellyache heard round the world. It marked a forgettable season with the New York Yankees. That very year, Mrs Dalloway was published. In it, Virginia Woolf writes: “But cricket was no mere game. Cricket was important. He could never help reading about cricket. He read the scores in the stop press first, then how it was a hot day; then about a murder case.” Priorities! (BTW, August 9, 2025, 100 years later—400 into NYC—MLB debuts its first female umpire: Jen Pawol.)