by David Krell | May 8, 2017 | David Krell
When Christian Ziegler got the assignment to design a new stadium for Jersey City, he planned a voyage with Parks and Public Buildings Commissioner Arthur Potterton for a reconnaissance trip to Rochester, Cleveland, Montreal, Boston, and Philadelphia, according to...
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 8, 2017 | David Krell
Monmouth County, located somewhat equidistantly between Hoboken and Atlantic City, boasts land of high significance to baseball and America. Once the spring training home of Brooklyn’s major league squad around the turn of the 20th century, nearly four decades...
by David Krell | Mar 21, 2017 | David Krell
With civic pride running as deep as the Hudson River abutting it, Hoboken boasts a singer who defined the standard for American popular music, an Italian festival dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, and a Beaux-Arts train terminal built by the once...
by David Krell | Mar 18, 2017 | David Krell
Once upon a decade—the one that introduced Elvis Presley, car tail fins, and McDonald’s franchises—a ballplayer blessed with speed, grace, and athleticism rivaling Orsippus’s climbed to the apex of baseball, popular culture, and media. The year was 1951....
