Don Drysdale: Once a Bum, Almost a Pirate

Imagining Don Drysdale playing for a team other than the Dodgers is like imagining Hershey’s making products without chocolate.  Drysdale, he of the cannon disguised as a right arm firing baseballs through National League lineups in the 1950s and the 1960s,...

Bay City Blues

Five years before Ron Shelton turned his script for Bull Durham into his directorial dbut, NBC aired Bay City Blues, which introduced millions of people to the pleasures, idiosyncrasies, and slightly desperate aura surrounding the minor leagues.  NBC’s prime...

Houston, You Have A Problem

A once venerable symbol of the future is on the precipice of being an ignored relic of the past. The Houston Astrodome. The first domed stadium. The 8th Wonder of the World. The echoes of its past glory are nearly silent as the Astrodome is a vacant remnant of an era...