by David Krell | Jul 3, 2013 | David Krell
The Lone Ranger and Tonto did not always get along Topps Comics produced a four-part story in 1994 that pulled no punches for this duo. Literally. The first panel of the first story depicts Tonto slugging the Lone Ranger, an inconceivable action given the historical...
by David Krell | Jul 2, 2013 | David Krell
As dawn anticipated breaking over southern California on the morning of August 30, 1979, a man two weeks shy of his sixty-fifth birthday covered his thinning hair with a cowboy hat. Besides the hairline, age was not a serious opponent. He was still fit and trim with...
by David Krell | Jun 25, 2013 | David Krell
Ebbets Field debuted right before the beginning of World War I. Groundbreaking for its time, Ebbets Field joined Detroit’s Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati’s Crosley Field, Boston’s Fenway Park, and Chicago’s Wrigley Field during this period as monuments to baseball with...
by David Krell | Jun 24, 2013 | David Krell
To be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the 1950s was to realize that Brooklyn is a heritage thing, rooted firmly in the cornerstone of family. Throughout the borough, several generations of a family lived in the same neighborhood. In some cases, they lived in the same...
by David Krell | Jun 22, 2013 | David Krell
Earlier this week, the world lost an icon of television. And New Jersey lost one of its own. James Gandolfini died from a heart attack during a trip to Italy. His portrayal of Tony Soprano, indelible in our memories, changed television. After The Sopranos debuted in...
by David Krell | Jun 20, 2013 | David Krell
1951. The Giants Win the Pennant! Ralph Branca. Brooklyn Dodgers. Bobby Thomson. New York Giants. Leo Durocher. Polo Grounds. Russ Hodges. The Shot Heard ‘Round the World. Larry Jansen. Larry Who? Ralph Branca threw the pitch that Bobby Thomson sent...
by David Krell | Jun 19, 2013 | David Krell
1951 was supposed to be the Dodgers’ year, a vengeance-filled riposte of burgeoning against the baseball fates that determined the previous year’s National League pennant go to the Philadelphia Phillies on the last day of the 1950 season. The paradigm repeated as...
by David Krell | Jun 18, 2013 | David Krell
On October 3, 1951, in the 75th year of the National League, the cross-town Giants-Dodgers rivalry provided a finish that belonged on a storyboard in the office of a Hollywood producer debating whether he should take his wife to Ciro’s and his latest casting couch...
by David Krell | Jun 17, 2013 | David Krell
Topic: The most important person in Dodgers history. Discuss. This could take awhile, if at least one participant bleeds Dodger Blue. Jackie Robinson comes to mind, of course. His courage opened the door for integration to revolutionize baseball. Branch Rickey...
by David Krell | Jun 2, 2013 | David Krell
This weekend, America lost a television treasure. Jean Stapleton. In the 1970s, television audiences empathized Stapleton’s alter ego, Edith Bunker, on All in the Family. Edith was optimistic, sunny, and kind to balance Archie Bunker’s grouchiness. But...
