Teddy Ballgame To Be Honored By USPS With Postage Stamp
September 2, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment
Red Sox Hall-of-Fame OF Ted Williams was larger than life and possessed the stuff of legend. He was both a baseball hero and a war hero, serving as a naval aviator (USMC pilot) during WWII (1942-46) and the Korean War (1952-53). He was the last baseball player to hit .400 during the regular season while […]
Six Decades of Baseball
March 13, 2011 by Judy Johnson · Leave a Comment
__________ Six decades is a long time.   That’s a lot of baseball memories. Bill Lewers issues an important caveat at the beginning of his 378-page narrative: he’s an ordinary fan.   For much of his life, he has watched baseball from the upper deck where he often sits alone (or so it seems), collecting memories […]
It’s All Here in “The Only Game”
June 30, 2010 by Sam Miller · Leave a Comment
“An afternoon in mid-May, and we are waiting for the game to begin. We are in the shadow, and the sunlit field before us is a thick, springy green” an old diamond, beautifully kept up,” Roger Angell pens in the opening to his essay “The Web of the Game.” (3, Only) Angell’s piece sets the […]
