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 | Apr 29, 2017 | David Krell
Victory, it is said, has a thousand fathers. Baseball, too. Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams is, for reasons passing understanding, without tangible recognition in Cooperstown, despite being a highly significant contributor to baseball’s genesis. It is...
by David Krell | Apr 21, 2017 | David Krell
What if… Charlie Finley hadn’t broken up the 1970s Oakland A’s dynasty? Bob Uecker hadn’t appeared in Major League? there was no Designated Hitter position? the Mets had never traded Nolan Ryan to the Angels? Yogi Berra had played for the...
by David Krell | Jan 2, 2017 | David Krell
George Chauncey may not immediately come to mind when discussing Dodgers history, assuming, of course, that he comes to mind at all. Perhaps he should. It was, after all, Chauncey who made front office decision that, in retrospect, drastically improved, enhanced,...
by David Krell | Dec 7, 2016 | David Krell
When Charles Ebbets died on April 18, 1925, Brooklynites lost their remaining link to the genesis of professional baseball in their beloved borough. Ebbets began his baseball career in 1883, when Brooklyn inaugurated professional baseball for its denizens from Coney...
