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 […]
When Charlie Keller Tried to Come Back
February 28, 2010 by Chip Greene · Leave a Comment
In the spring of 1947, the Yankees’ Charlie Keller was at his peak as a power hitter. Now 30 years old, he’d long ago mastered the kind of left-handed swing New York management had envisioned when they signed Keller off the University of Maryland campus; he was the consummate pull-hitter, routinely muscling the ball into […]
