There was a grand symmetry to Dick Enberg’s life, which ended shockingly this week with a heart…
On April 12, 1945 Harry Truman ended a dry day presiding over the U.S. Senate by inviting…
By curtsmithusa
It often seemed that Milo Hamilton did everything in baseball broadcasting that is humanly possible to do. Born in 1927, he started at Armed Forces Radio, the University of Iowa, and the minor leagues, re-creating a…
Casey Stengel was known was the “The Perfessor.” Pete Van Wieren was named “The Professor” by Braves radio/TV partner Ernie Johnson, who said he looked like author and 1954–63 big-league pitcher Jim Brosnan. Van Wieren, a…
Some people grasp priorities. A writer was asked what he would take if he could remove only one thing. “I would take the fire,” he reasoned. Other people can’t see the forest for the trees. Baseball’s hierarchy has become that…
The 1962 New York Mets were born in sin, cleansed by pain, and saved in 1969. Sin: the National League’s 1957 adieu to New York City. Pain: Marvelous Marv, Roger Craig, and Casey Stengel’s other expansion ‘62ers…
Few enriched life like Jerry Coleman, who died this week of head injury from a recent fall, having lived a potpourri of lives in his 89 years on earth. How should we eulogize this baseball original? Should we hail his…
Someone’s career can seem ordained at birth. Eric Nadel was born May 15, 1951, in Brooklyn USA, the only place, as the late broadcaster Ernie Harwell said, “where people made a vocation of being a baseball fan.” On July…
While you have busied yourself with life’s important things — the Cardinals’ precocious pitching staff, the beyond the moon Dodgers, and above all, the miracle of the 2013 Boston Red Sox — I have spent this year in…
