Sixty-four teams are good, so 128 must be better! This week on Only A Game, should the March Madness field be increased to include just about everybody? Also, the round-the-world saga of Canadian hero and Paralympian Rick Hansen.

Everybody knows that Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball. Bill Littlefield reviews a book that covers interactions between black and white baseball players before 1947.

The Olympics are over and that means we’ve got more time to think about baseball. The sport loves its lingo, from the hot corner to hot stove to Texas leaguers. And if you’ve ever wondered where the term “bullpen” came from, Bill Littlefield has an answer.

Throughout his storied career, the Say Hey Kid dominated the game and earned the admiration of baseball fans everywhere. Among those fans was Bill Littlefield, who could hardly wait to review James Hirsch’s new book, Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend.

This week on Only A Game, a small golf course in Aceh, Indonesia reopens five years after the 2004 tsunami. Also, Mark McGwire gets all teary-eyed remembering that really great summer of ’98, and Charlie Pierce dissects the week’s sports news.

On Monday, Mark McGwire acknowledged his steroid use while he was hitting all those home runs in the ‘90’s. Like the Mark McGwire who told a congressional committee almost five years ago that he wasn’t there to talk about the past, Bill Littlefield is focusing on the present and the future.

Shiver me timbers, matey, there’s nothing left in Pittsburgh’s treasure chest! This week on Only A Game, weary Pirates fans walk the plank…again. Also, a college football preview, and knit one, purl two, strike three…a trip to the ball park with some very nice knitters. Join us.

This week on Only A Game, a look at the impact of the Special Olympics, after the death of their founder, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Also, the latest on baseball’s pennant and wild card races from ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian. Plus, delivering the goods at the 2009 North American Cycle Courier Championships.

Bill Littlefield is still thinking about the game from which Boston Red Sox hitter Kevin Youkilis was ejected for, among other trespasses, throwing his helmet at the Detroit Tigers pitcher who’d plunked him in the back.

This week on Only A Game, Lou Holtz comes out of retirement to coach on a Japanese gridiron. Also, remembering Jeff Blatnick’s unlikely 1984 Olympic wrestling gold medal, and a conversation with the author of a new book about golfer Michelle Wie.