Major League Baseball….in Altoona?

June 6, 2010 by James Forr · 2 Comments

Altoona, Pennsylvania is the kind of place Bruce Springsteen sings about â€“ a cold, gray blight, best experienced through the rear-view mirror at about 80 miles-an-hour.Â When the Pennsylvania Railroad crumbled after World War II, Altoona crashed down right along with it.Â Today, the garish lights of its endless chain restaurants and strip malls are […]

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This Week in Baseball: 1928

April 15, 2008 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment

This is part of a weekly series in which I describe what was happening in Major League Baseball each week of a randomly chosen year. This week’s article chronicles the goings on during the week of April 8-14, 1928.

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