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 | Feb 20, 2022 | David Krell
John Glenn was one of NASA’s original group of seven astronauts in Project Mercury. On February 20, 1962, his orbit in the Friendship 7 capsule was cut short because of concerns about the heat shield. This is an excerpt from my book 1962: Baseball and America...
by David Krell | Oct 15, 2020 | David Krell
It didn’t take long. Three days after the San Francisco Giants traded Willie Mays to the New York Mets in 1972, the “Say Hey Kid” smacked a home run in his first game with the Queens-based ball club—a solo blast securing a 5-4 victory over his former team on Mother’s...
by David Krell | Oct 13, 2020 | David Krell
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. When President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet inquires whether anyone in an Oval Office meeting knows the translation of this Latin bromide, Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman understands “post” (after) and “ergo” (therefore).[1] Chief of Staff Leo...
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 | Oct 4, 2017 | David Krell
60 years ago today, the world marveled, reeled, and responded to Russia’s launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. And so mankind’s journey towards manned spaceflight began. Time described the chirping sounds coming from Sputnik as...
by David Krell | May 29, 2017 | David Krell
“Neither heroic nor exciting.” That is how Patrick O’Donovan of the Herald Tribune – London Observer Service described President Eisenhower’s America of the 1950s. 1960 reversed the political status quo in the White House. Or at least detoured it towards a feeling of...
by David Krell | May 15, 2017 | David Krell
Some things aren’t meant to last. Prime time television’s roster has a handful of shows that didn’t endure more than episode, e.g., Co-Ed Fever, Public Morals, South of Sunset. Major League Baseball’s annals boast tales of players who only...
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...
