by David Krell | Mar 5, 2017 | David Krell
If Boston ever establishes a Mount Rushmore of sports, the four visages will likely be those of Robert Gordon Orr, Larry Joe Bird, Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, Jr., and Theodore Samuel Williams. Bobby. Larry. Tom. Ted. When Ted Williams swung his bat, a hit was not...
by David Krell | Feb 21, 2017 | David Krell
Hobie Landrith holds the distinction of being the first New York Met, selected on October 10, 1961 in the expansion draft that populated the lineups of the nascent Mets and Colt .45s. When the Mets took the field at the Polo Grounds the following April for their first...
by David Krell | Feb 16, 2017 | David Krell
Jackie Robinson has inspired an abundance of portrayals in popular culture, unsurprisingly. Examples include Blair Underwood in the 1996 HBO tv-movie Soul of the Game, Chadwick Boseman in the 2013 movie 42, and the man himself in the 1950 movie The Jackie Robinson...
by David Krell | Jan 29, 2017 | David Krell
When Daniel Joseph Staub signed a major league contract, he fell under the “bonus baby” nomenclature. Nicknamed “Rusty” by a nurse upon his birth on April 1, 1944, Staub became so known. In a 1967 article for Sports Illustrated, Gary Ronberg...
by David Krell | Jan 28, 2017 | David Krell
Christy Mathewson and the New York Giants enjoy synonymity—you can’t think of one entity without the other. It wasn’t always that way, however. Big Six, as Mathewson became known, began his major league tenure with the Cincinnati Reds. John Brush owned...
