by David Krell | Dec 13, 2016 | David Krell
Midwesterners are a stoic lot; stereotypically speaking, they’re quiet but not timid. Theirs is a mission of doing a job without complaint, fanfare, and insolence. To be from the Midwest, certainly, is to have a work ethic in your DNA where seeking attention...
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 | Nov 22, 2016 | David Krell
The 1950s was a decade of change. Elvis Presley spearheaded the introduction of rock and roll, television replaced radio as the preferred mass medium for news and entertainment, and several baseball teams migrated westward—way westward for two teams, mid-westward for...
by David Krell | Nov 13, 2016 | David Krell
In the 2013 movie 42, T.R. Knight plays Harold Parrott, the publicity chief for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Parrott, a former sports writer, was well suited for the task of handling his former brethren from the press box. He knew their pressures, their deadlines, and...
by David Krell | Nov 9, 2016 | David Krell
Disco’s transition from musical genre to mainstream phenomenon occurred when John Travolta mesmerized movie audiences in 1977 with his portrayal of fictional Brooklynite Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever. After Travolta’s bravura performance, disco...
