by David Krell | Mar 12, 2018 | David Krell
Like an avid mystery reader frustrated after finding the last two pages identifying the killer ripped out of a 600-page novel, so were the fans at Braves Field on May 1, 1920. There would be no closure for a game that went nearly triple the standard nine-inning...
by David Krell | May 13, 2017 | David Krell
For reasons passing understanding, Charles Ebbets is not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. This is shameful at best and unforgivable at worst. Imagine a baseball lineage without Ebbets Field, which débuted in 1913, becoming the home for a team with various...
by David Krell | May 3, 2017 | David Krell
They say the third time’s a charm. And so it was with Lefty Grove’s 300th victory, which occurred on July 25, 1941, against the Cleveland Indians. “Here the hundreds of fans who had been waiting for this moment ever since it became possible for...
by David Krell | Apr 29, 2017 | David Krell
Victory, it is said, has a thousand fathers. Baseball, too. Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams is, for reasons passing understanding, without tangible recognition in Cooperstown, despite being a highly significant contributor to baseball’s genesis. It is...
by David Krell | Apr 28, 2017 | David Krell
Imagining Don Drysdale playing for a team other than the Dodgers is like imagining Hershey’s making products without chocolate. Drysdale, he of the cannon disguised as a right arm firing baseballs through National League lineups in the 1950s and the 1960s,...