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,...
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 | Apr 23, 2017 | David Krell
It was a moment of nostalgia, surprise, and joy. More than 30 years after hanging up his spikes, Luke Appling went yard at the age of 75 in the 1982 Cracker Jack Old Timers Baseball Classic at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. Far from a power hitter, Luke...
by David Krell | Apr 22, 2017 | David Krell
In 1956, Mickey Mantle won the American League Triple Crown, Don Larsen pitched a perfect game in the World Series, and Whitey Ford led the major leagues in Earned Run Average. It was also the year of another World Series championship for the Bronx Bombers, further...
