by David Krell | Jun 25, 2012 | David Krell
Keeping the flame of baseball history alive requires more than reading books, writing articles, and watching documentaries about well-known players, including Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Ty Cobb, Roberto Clemente, Lou Gehrig. For the flame...
by David Krell | Jun 24, 2012 | David Krell
Ray Kroc must have felt like the 19th century prospectors that struck gold when he fulfilled an order by Dick and Mac McDonald in 1954 for eight multi-mixers. They were milkshake machines that could make five milkshakes at a time. It happened in San Bernardino,...
by David Krell | Jun 23, 2012 | David Krell
Jim Bouton peeled back the veneer protecting Major League Baseball in his 1970 exposé, Ball Four. It reads like a friend sharing secrets with you over a couple of beers at a baseball game. Bouton, a quasi-phenom pitcher in the early 1960s with the New York Yankees, he...
by David Krell | Jun 22, 2012 | David Krell
In Brooklyn, Charles Ebbets and his bosses suffered a crater in the bottom line because the Players’ League siphoned from the Brooklyn fan base for its Brooklyn team – the Wonders. Byrne merged operations with the Wonders. The new incarnation acquired a nickname based...
by David Krell | Jun 21, 2012 | David Krell
Professional baseball for Brooklyn began about 125 miles south in a doubleheader against the ISBA’s Wilmington, Delaware team on May 1, 1883. The teams split the games. Wilmington won the first game 9-6, Brooklyn won the second game 8-2. On May 9th, Brooklyn played...
by David Krell | Jun 20, 2012 | David Krell
As baseball crawled toward its first wobbly steps of formal organization in the mid-19th century, Brooklyn embraced the game through several amateur teams, including Atlantics, Excelsiors, Putnams, Eckfords. The Atlantics played in the National Association of Baseball...
by David Krell | Jun 19, 2012 | David Krell
A brand communicates value to the consumer through advertisements designed to strike emotional chords. More than a television program about a fictional advertising agency in the 1960s, Mad Men is a revealing look at the creative process in advertising. When Don...
by David Krell | Jun 17, 2012 | David Krell
Happy Father’s Day! Since television became a mass medium during the 1950s, the single dad paradigm has been a staple of prime time television. From Mayberry to the Ponderosa, the single dad character has shown courage in the face of adversity, strength in the wake of...
by David Krell | Jun 16, 2012 | David Krell
The bar for awesome just got higher. By a few hundred miles. Nik Wallenda crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope last night. ABC broadcast the event as a prime time special, a logical outlet given the network has daredevil events in its DNA. In the 1970s, Evel Knievel...
by David Krell | Jun 14, 2012 | David Krell
The legend of Betsy Ross. The raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima. The Pledge of Allegiance. American icons, all. And worth honoring. Especially today. Flag Day. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress declared June 14th to be a day honoring the...
