Baseball
epub |eng | | Author:George Castle

Buffalo. Bills (NFL), Sabres (NHL) Indianapolis. Colts (NFL), Pacers (NBA) Carolina (Charlotte). Panthers (NFL), Hornets (NBA) Tennessee (Nashville). Titans (NFL), Predators (NHL) New Orleans. Saints (NFL), Pelicans (NBA) Jacksonville. Jaguars ...
( Category: Baseball March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sridhar Pappu

THE DEATH OF A DREAM: Robert Kennedy, speaking at the Ambassador Hotel after midnight on June 5, 1968, following his win in the California primary, began with a congratulations to ...
( Category: Biographies March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-13 | Author:Joe Cox

If Long and Mattingly played the game to get out of the shadows of odd positional moves, the third slugger in the eight-home-run club had his own shadows to deal ...
( Category: Baseball March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:Paul Hensler [Hensler, Paul]

Mirroring Bowie Kuhn as an enthusiastic baseball fan, President Richard Nixon tended to Opening Day duties at RFK Stadium. Major figures (in foreground from left) are Washington Senators manager Ted ...
( Category: Baseball March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Steve Dahl

Dahl was dressed as a general storming the field. War was declared. By 1980, disco was defeated on mainstream Chicago radio and WDAI switched to the Top 40/oldies mixed format ...
( Category: Americas March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rob Neyer

1928 JOHN MCGRAW & “BUCK LAI” Clark Griffith needn’t think he’s pulling something new when he introduces a Chinese into the American League this year. Twenty years ago, John McGraw ...
( Category: Humor March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:The New York Times & Alec Baldwin

The Yankees didn’t win another game until Mantle hit a home run, the night of Aug. 22, while Stottlemyre pitched a shutout. That was the beginning of the comeback. The ...
( Category: Baseball March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-05 | Author:Charles C. Alexander

FIVE * * * “Lucky to get safely to his hotel” All of the American League clubs had a two-day break in the schedule on August 12 and 13, 1908. ...
( Category: Baseball March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonah Keri [Keri, Jonah;]

Does Baseball Need a Salary Cap? NEIL DEMAUSE Perhaps no two words in baseball generate as much controversy and emotion as “salary cap.” (“Designated hitter” might be a close second.) ...
( Category: Baseball March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-25 | Author:Ed Henry

A NETWORK OF SUPPORT Throughout the season, telegrams and letters poured in to Robinson from people all across America—white and black—telling him there was a prayer army out there rooting ...
( Category: Biographies March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Plaschke

He was just getting started. A couple of years later, he was promoted to the triple-A Spokane Indians, where he immediately made his mark by relaying the team’s spring training ...
( Category: Biographies March 14,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Joe Pepitone [Pepitone, Joe]

Ralph Houk called me into the Yankee offices on Fifth Avenue and talked to me that fall. He told me I had to change my ways or I wasn’t going ...
( Category: Biographies March 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:John Eisenberg [Eisenberg, John]

Disappointed with his 1990 season, Ripken played more basketball in the off-season, lifted more weights, took hours of extra batting practice, and asked Frank Robinson for hitting advice. Robinson said ...
( Category: Baseball March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Lisle, Benjamin D.;

The Modern Spectator and a Democracy of Comfort Houston mayor Louis Welch suggested the stadium’s earthbound progressiveness in the opening pages of Inside the Astrodome, when he linked the stargazing ...
( Category: Sociology March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Jim Gerard [Gerard, Jim]

PINSTRIPED GOODFELLAS7 The Yankees like to promote their players—especially their superstars—as dignified, upstanding citizens. Bu. throughout Yankee history, some of the walking Monuments cavorted openly with mobsters. Let’s start with ...
( Category: Humor March 12,2018 )