We’re only a few weeks away from 0pening day and that means tens of thousands of young baseball fans are purchasing baseball cards, watching spring training games and talking about the upcoming baseball season. Baseball card collecting played a significant role in my upbringing. I must have spent hundreds of hours, if not thousands, attending [Read more…]
Reflections in History: Serving in the US Army
One of my best memories is of those serving in the US army in the early 1950s. Here is part of my story. For a month or so prior to my induction into the Army I made a few preparations. I was finishing my Junior year in an unexciting Art Teaching program [I preferred to [Read more…]
On President’s Day : Boyhood Memories of FDR
I was born only a couple weeks before Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president in 1932. He was our “great hope” to bring America out of the “Great Depression!” My earliest memories of FDR were from our family gatherings in our living room around our huge Philco radio, intently listening to the President expertly delivering [Read more…]
Opening Day is Not Far Away!
The dust has settled and the Super is over and the NBA season is approaching mid mark. It’s easy to neglect what’s going on in the world of baseball. So far, this off-season there have been some big moves, teams getting new managers or even GMs and adding extra wild card teams to the playoffs. [Read more…]
What Happened to Racquetball?
Why is every sport today for extremists — at least of the athletic variety? I just finished watching a fascinating NYTimes.com video about “wall trampolining.” If you haven’t heard yet, wall trampolining is the NEXT BIG THING in extreme sports. What is it? Well, it is a sport in which trampoliners(?) jump off a high wall, [Read more…]
