by David Krell | Dec 5, 2022 | David Krell
April 10, 1977: Milwaukee Brewers 2, New York Yankees 1 at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY If you can’t beat them, sign them to a contract. Yankees owner George Steinbrenner signed Don Gullett on November 18, 1976, a little more than a month after the southpaw and his...
by David Krell | Nov 28, 2022 | David Krell
April 7, 1977: New York Yankees 3, Milwaukee Brewers 0 Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY Mission accomplished. When Reggie Jackson signed with the New York Yankees four days after Thanksgiving, 1976, he declared, “I didn’t come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with...
by David Krell | May 14, 2017 | David Krell
“You just dream about something, that’s all it’s ever gonna be. Just a dream.” So says Harold Nuttingham in the 1979 film Dreamer, a post-Watergate, feel-good movie with a down-to-earth vibe. Nuttingham dreams of being a bowling...
by David Krell | May 11, 2017 | David Krell
The baseball traveled on its parabolic destiny, rising through the mid-October night and dropping a few dozen feet in front of the Manufacturers Hanover Super Checking billboard at 11:43 p.m. Eastern. It was a moment of exhilaration, followed nanoseconds later by...
by David Krell | May 10, 2017 | David Krell
Ty Cobb posed a danger on two occasions—in the batter’s box and on the base paths. On May 15, 1912, Cobb, legendary for his nastiness, pummeled on opponent who wore neither a uniform nor a baseball cap signifying membership on a ball club. It happened during a...