by David Krell | Apr 25, 2017 | David Krell
Chicago welcomed an addition to its iconography on July 1, 1910. Comiskey Park, that structure serving as a second home for baseball fans on the Windy City’s south side, débuted in an era of new stadia—Fenway Park in 1912, Ebbets Field in 1913, Weeghman Park...
by David Krell | Jan 26, 2017 | David Krell
William Howard Taft invented—unintentionally—the seventh inning stretch, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis to continue Major League Baseball during World War II, and George W. Bush skyrocketed American morale after the 9/11 attacks...
by David Krell | Dec 30, 2016 | David Krell
Eliot Asinof’s 1963 book Eight Men Out provided the source material for the eponymous 1988 movie written and directed by John Sayles, who also played sportswriter Ring Lardner. Starring Charlie Sheen, John Cusack, Bill Irwin, Gordon Clapp, Clifton James,...
by David Krell | Dec 3, 2016 | David Krell
When the Greenville Drive ball club of the South Atlantic League takes the field, they continue a baseball legacy kindled, in part, by Greenville’s most famous resident. Shoeless Joe Jackson. Sitting in South Carolina’s northwestern region, Greenville...
by David Krell | Nov 28, 2016 | David Krell
Baseball’s history is highlighted by its heroes. Lou Gehrig revealed unimaginable courage in his “Luckiest Man” speech as he faced the debilitating, horrific, and fatal disease of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis that took his life nearly two years...