by David Krell | Apr 17, 2017 | David Krell
Boosted by cheers from Hollywood stars supporting the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League, Gilmore Field débuted as a ballpark on May 3, 1939. Among the famous fans: Buster Keaton, Jack Benny, and Rudy Vallee. “Glamour was furnished in the person of...
by David Krell | Mar 31, 2017 | David Krell
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. So said a fictional version of Babe Ruth in the 1993 film The Sandlot. Lou Gehrig, undoubtedly, belongs in the latter category. Stricken by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the Yankee slugger died on June 2, 1941 at the...
by David Krell | Mar 10, 2017 | David Krell
One was pugnacious. The other, almost regal. When John Joseph McGraw took the field, he embraced baseball games as bouts, thus earning his nicknames Mugsy and Little Napoleon. When Cornelius McGillicuddy managed the Philadelphia Athletics, he wore a suit rather than...
by David Krell | Jan 25, 2017 | David Krell
It’s appropriate the first perfect game in the 20th century belongs to the pitcher whose moniker adorns baseball’s most prestigious award for hurlers. Denton True “Cy” Young. Young’s feat on May 5, 1904 decimated the Philadelphia...
by David Krell | Mar 13, 2013 | David Krell
Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass created animation legacies. A Canadian studio, Rankin-Bass entered the American market in 1961 with versions of two classic stories in first-run syndication. First-run syndication is television programming that initially broadcasts a...