by David Krell | Dec 1, 2016 | David Krell
In the first half of the 1970s, two clans ruled Friday night television—The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. Both shows aired on ABC. Dodgers legend Don Drysdale met the Bradys in the episode “The Dropout” as a client of Mike Brady, America’s...
by David Krell | Nov 17, 2016 | David Krell
Baseball is a never-ending source for popular culture storytellers whose tales tap a range of emotional veins in fans of the National Pastime. We cry when Gary Cooper reenacts Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech in The Pride of the Yankees. We cheer...
by David Krell | Nov 11, 2016 | David Krell
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training gives the underdogs from southern California’s North Valley League a shot at the Houston Toros—a bigger, stronger, and faster team. Where else could the climactic game take place but the Astrodome—the post-modern Eighth...
by David Krell | May 9, 2012 | David Krell
A once venerable symbol of the future is on the precipice of being an ignored relic of the past. The Houston Astrodome. The first domed stadium. The 8th Wonder of the World. The echoes of its past glory are nearly silent as the Astrodome is a vacant remnant of an era...
