by David Krell | Dec 6, 2016 | David Krell
Consistency is the yardstick by which excellence is measured. Mickey Lolich, a Detroit baseball icon, demonstrated consistency, ergo, excellence in a pitching career that, perhaps surprisingly, has not yet warranted admittance to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Lolich...
by David Krell | Dec 4, 2016 | David Krell
As described by German Prussian politician Otto von Bismarck, politics is the art of the possible. So is baseball. When the New York Mets defeated the Baltimore Orioles to win the 1969 World Series, possible elevated to miraculous. Once again, National League...
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 | Dec 2, 2016 | David Krell
More than a moniker, the name of a sports team may reflect local history, culture, and myth. Baseball, certainly, has contributed to this linguistic equation. San Diego is the site of the first Franciscan mission, hence the name Padres. The West Virginia Power, the...
by David Krell | Dec 1, 2016 | David Krell
In the first half of the 1970s, two clans ruled Friday night television—The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. Both shows aired on ABC. Dodgers legend Don Drysdale met the Bradys in the episode “The Dropout” as a client of Mike Brady, America’s...
