by David Krell | May 22, 2013 | David Krell
What is your favorite baseball nickname? The Say Hey Kid for Willie Mays? The Yankee Clipper for Joe DiMaggio? Mr. Cub for Ernie Banks? Tom Terrific for Tom Seaver? ESPN sportscaster Chris Berman christened a tongue-in-cheek nickname for Bert Blyleven with a play...
by David Krell | May 21, 2013 | David Krell
Baseball is a beautiful game, largely because it has no clock determining its end. An NFL team has 45 seconds to execute an offensive play. An NBA team, 24 seconds. But baseball has no time limit. The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training illustrated this point with...
by David Krell | May 15, 2013 | David Krell
Coal. Logging. Natural gas. West Virginia is more than a state rich with natural resources. It is, in fact, a minor league baseball treasure. Charleston, the state capital, began its professional baseball résumé in 1910 with the Statesmen, a Class D team in the...
by David Krell | May 14, 2013 | David Krell
Sparky Anderson is a Cincinnati legend. He managed the Cincinnati Reds — the Big Red Machine — in the 1970s and delivered two World Series championships, four National League championships, and five National League East championships to Queen City. And...
by David Krell | May 10, 2013 | David Krell
Next month, Casey at the Bat celebrates its 125th anniversary. Penned by Ernest Thayer, the story might never have happened but for an Ivy League friendship with William Randolph Hearst. Thayer and Hearst knew each other from their days at Harvard. Thayer was a...
by David Krell | May 9, 2013 | David Krell
As dusk anticipated relieving the sun of its duties during the twilight of October 3, 1956, Paul Newman hustled through the stage entrance of the Mansfield Theatre, an august Broadway institution on West 47th Street in Manhattan. Yes, that Paul Newman. Newman was...
by David Krell | May 5, 2013 | David Krell
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. But the 1988 film that joined animation’s favorite characters with live action has its roots in a 1981 novel by Gary K. Wolf — Who Censored Roger Rabbit? It’s a different story...
by David Krell | May 3, 2013 | David Krell
It’s A Wonderful Life is a slice of Americana. A small town guy with big city dreams sacrifices his goals for his friends, family, and community in Bedford Falls, New York. George Bailey wants to travel across the globe. He wants to build bridges and skyscrapers. ...
by David Krell | May 2, 2013 | David Krell
All in the Family dominated prime time programming in the first half of the 1970s. It was a jewel for the Tiffany Network, a nickname for CBS because of the network’s high quality news and entertainment programming. Created by Norman Lear, All in the Family...
by David Krell | May 1, 2013 | David Krell
You must remember this: Casablanca is a classic movie. But did you know this? Casablanca had less than auspicious beginnings. Casablanca began as a play titled Everybody Comes to Rick’s written by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison in the late 1930s. Although...
