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...
by David Krell | May 13, 2017 | David Krell
For reasons passing understanding, Charles Ebbets is not a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. This is shameful at best and unforgivable at worst. Imagine a baseball lineage without Ebbets Field, which débuted in 1913, becoming the home for a team with various...
by David Krell | May 12, 2017 | David Krell
They might as well have called it basebrawl—Gilmore Field showcased fights disguised as baseball games between the Los Angeles Angels and the Hollywood Stars during two games in a three-day span in 1953. On July 31st, the Stars defeated the Angels 2-1 when Frankie...
