For the first time since 1996, the baseball writers didn’t elect a single player for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Much of the shun was due to the high volume of players from “the steroid era”. I reflected on those players that are almost good enough, but not quite up to Hall of Fame standards, ...
In 1883 a man by the name Major Thomas Hayes bought land which he built a school for his daughters to attend. It started out as a one room school house on pages lane in Louisville. He hired a woman by the name of Lizzie Lee Harris to teach at the new school. She loved ...
When film director Ron Howard set out to make a movie about the Apollo program, the problem he faced was that nearly all of the Apollo expeditions to the Moon had proceeded pretty much perfectly. The exception, of course, was the flight of Apollo 13, which in April of 1970 suffered an explosion in the ...
“Houston, we have a problem.” Forty years ago this month, on April 13, 1970, a radio transmission containing these words crackled sharply back to earth from the tiny Apollo 13 spacecraft, which was carrying three men on a quarter-million mile journey to the moon. Spoken by the spacecraft’s commander, with a deliberate calm inculcated by ...
Here we are, deep into the fall. Baseball is over for now, and the off season is as heated and hectic as ever. The general manager meetings just ended with instant replay and free agency being the hot topics, and – by the way – it’s time for all those awards. Rookie of the Year, ...
