by David Krell | Dec 8, 2016 | David Krell
Before he treated a chimpanzee named Bonzo like a child, pleaded the Notre Dame football team to win just one for the Gipper, and told Mr. Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan was a baseball announcer. Reagan called baseball games for WOC in...
by David Krell | Dec 6, 2016 | David Krell
Consistency is the yardstick by which excellence is measured. Mickey Lolich, a Detroit baseball icon, demonstrated consistency, ergo, excellence in a pitching career that, perhaps surprisingly, has not yet warranted admittance to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Lolich...
by David Krell | Nov 3, 2016 | David Krell
The life story genre is a staple of baseball films. Fear Strikes Out depicted the anxieties of Jimmy Piersall. William Bendix and John Goodman played Babe Ruth in The Babe Ruth Story and The Babe, respectively. 42 spotlighted Jackie Robinson’s story of...
