by David Krell | Dec 11, 2016 | David Krell
In William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the character of Malvolio says, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.” By a conventional wisdom paradigm, Morgan Bulkeley fell into all three categories....
by David Krell | Dec 10, 2016 | David Krell
Baseball is a game marked by milestones of achievements—3,000 career hits, 300 career pitching victories, 100 RBI in a season. It’s also a game marked by milestones reached when opportunity meets happenstance. Players attain an illustrious position in the...
by David Krell | Dec 9, 2016 | David Krell
When Harmon Killebrew died in 2011, obituaries recalled the statement of former Baltimore Orioles manager Paul Richards: “Killebrew can knock the ball out of any park, including Yellowstone.” Killebrew’s power resulted in 573 home runs in a 22-year...
by David Krell | Dec 8, 2016 | David Krell
Before he treated a chimpanzee named Bonzo like a child, pleaded the Notre Dame football team to win just one for the Gipper, and told Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan was a baseball announcer. Reagan called baseball games for WOC in...
by David Krell | Dec 7, 2016 | David Krell
When Charles Ebbets died on April 18, 1925, Brooklynites lost their remaining link to the genesis of professional baseball in their beloved borough. Ebbets began his baseball career in 1883, when Brooklyn inaugurated professional baseball for its denizens from Coney...
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...
