by David Krell | Dec 5, 2022 | David Krell
April 10, 1977: Milwaukee Brewers 2, New York Yankees 1 at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY If you can’t beat them, sign them to a contract. Yankees owner George Steinbrenner signed Don Gullett on November 18, 1976, a little more than a month after the southpaw and his...
by David Krell | May 6, 2017 | David Krell
Professional athletes are forced to live up to legacies. Retired uniform numbers, highlight films, and statues of icons from past eras remind them of the giant footprints to fill. Or at least in which they must tread. Such was the burden for the Miami Dolphins on...
by David Krell | Apr 12, 2017 | David Krell
The tale of Lonesome Rhodes is a cautionary one. Written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd revolves around Rhodes, a drunk with a gift for guitar playing, singing, and folksiness. Arkansas radio producer Marcia Jeffries...
by David Krell | Apr 9, 2017 | David Krell
In the 1970s—the decade of disco, Watergate, and bell bottom pants—the women’s rights movement escalated to a new level, continuing a legacy ignited by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Ida Harper. Billie Jean King’s defeat of Bobby Riggs in...
by David Krell | Apr 7, 2017 | David Krell
At the turn of the 21st century, while the world scrambled to confront a Y2K threat to computers, Bobby Bonilla and the management of the New York Mets came to an agreement regarding salary—defer it. Well, a lot of it. From 2011 to 2035, Bonilla gets annual...
