by David Krell | Mar 4, 2017 | David Krell
There are coaches and managers who approach baseball with a Lombardi-like focus on winning without the trademark Lombardi philosophy of striving to obtain psychological, emotional, and physical fulfillment through 100% effort. Their desire to win is pure. Their...
by David Krell | Mar 3, 2017 | David Krell
During the summer that William Holden escaped Stalag 17, Audrey Hepburn gallivanted around Rome, and Burt Lancaster kissed Deborah Kerr on a Hawaiian beach, two sluggers edged toward a batting championship decided by one thousandth of a point—Al Rosen and Mickey...
by David Krell | Feb 23, 2017 | David Krell
Baseball, unlike other sports, has no boundary of time. On June 24, 1962, the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers issued a reminder at Tiger Stadium. It took 22 innings, seven hours; an epic test of endurance inched the players toward completing the contest,...
by David Krell | Feb 13, 2017 | David Krell
When Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle battled for supremacy in the single-season home run category in 1961, the spotlight that shone on them placed the excellence of the Yankee ball club in the shadows. Elston Howard had a career high .348 batting average, Whitey Ford...
by David Krell | Jan 8, 2017 | David Krell
Vada Pinson guarded the outfield grass at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field in the 1960s like a sentry guards on outpost—with determination, concentration, and resolve. In his “Counterpoints” editorial for the November 13, 1995 edition of USA Today, Tony...
