by David Krell | Jun 24, 2013 | David Krell
To be a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the 1950s was to realize that Brooklyn is a heritage thing, rooted firmly in the cornerstone of family. Throughout the borough, several generations of a family lived in the same neighborhood. In some cases, they lived in the same...
by David Krell | May 21, 2013 | David Krell
Baseball is a beautiful game, largely because it has no clock determining its end. An NFL team has 45 seconds to execute an offensive play. An NBA team, 24 seconds. But baseball has no time limit. The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training illustrated this point with...
by David Krell | May 14, 2013 | David Krell
Sparky Anderson is a Cincinnati legend. He managed the Cincinnati Reds — the Big Red Machine — in the 1970s and delivered two World Series championships, four National League championships, and five National League East championships to Queen City. And...
by David Krell | May 2, 2013 | David Krell
All in the Family dominated prime time programming in the first half of the 1970s. It was a jewel for the Tiffany Network, a nickname for CBS because of the network’s high quality news and entertainment programming. Created by Norman Lear, All in the Family...
by David Krell | Apr 30, 2013 | David Krell
Carl Reiner created The Dick Van Dyke Show as a parallel to his own life as a television comedy writer. Indeed, Reiner initially played the main character, Robert Petrie, in a failed television pilot. CBS rejected the pilot, Head of the Family, but aired it as part...
