How Did the Giants Win the Pennant, Anyway?

by | Jun 19, 2013 | David Krell

1951 was supposed to be the Dodgers’ year, a vengeance-filled riposte of burgeoning against the baseball fates that determined the previous year’s National League pennant go to the Philadelphia Phillies on the last day of the 1950 season.  The paradigm repeated as...

The Most Important Person in Dodgers History

by | Jun 17, 2013 | David Krell

Topic:  The most important person in Dodgers history. Discuss.  This could take awhile, if at least one participant bleeds Dodger Blue. Jackie Robinson comes to mind, of course.  His courage opened the door for integration to revolutionize baseball. Branch Rickey...

Paul Newman’s World Series Pranks and Franks

by | May 9, 2013 | David Krell

As dusk anticipated relieving the sun of its duties during the twilight of October 3, 1956, Paul Newman hustled through the stage entrance of the Mansfield Theatre, an august Broadway institution on West 47th Street in Manhattan.  Yes, that Paul Newman. Newman was...

Mr. Robinson and Mr. Rickey

by | Apr 9, 2013 | David Krell

42:  The Jackie Robinson Story opens in theatres on Friday, April 12th.  The date is appropriate — nearly 66 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his official debut in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947.  He played, of course, for the Brooklyn...