The Reading Rifle: One of my favorites
It was one of the most astonishing plays I’d ever seen...
Remembering Don ‘Popeye’ Zimmer, a baseball lifer
There was a time when Don Zimmer, born Jan. 17, 1931, in...
Happy Birthday to Dodgers great Roy Campanella
Which is the Roy Campanella to write about in his birthday month...
Darby O’Brien almost had a career
September is a lean month for Sunshine Boys birthdays. I found but...
Remembering a good guy
There must be someone, someone from the Boys of Summer, who was...
Cal Abrams: He fought fate to a draw
March birthdays, there are a plenty. Several are flashes in the pan...
Sandy Amoros: A blazing star who fizzled out
The stars produced baseball stars in the month of January for Brooklyn...
Happy Birthday to Shotgun Shuba!
There were two choices for this Birthday Story of the Month. One...
A short, bright flash in the pan
It would seem that the clear choice for November’s Brooklyn...