Gambling at the Hall of Fame: Part Two
July 18, 2011 by Gabriel Schechter · 1 Comment
Are you ready for the bizarre story I promised you last time, about gambling AT the Hall of Fame? If you haven’t read “Part One” please do so before reading this one. In it, I told about the Hall of Fame refusing to hire me in the mid-1990s because of my background as a Las […]
Ron Luciano on Life as an Umpire in the 1970s
February 18, 2010 by Arne Christensen · 1 Comment
A few months ago, the memory of devouring Ron Luciano’s four collections of tales and anecdotes from his umpiring days when I was a kid led me to look up the story of his suicide in 1995, 15 years and one month ago today. In the process, I discovered a long interview he gave back […]
