Tag: memories
member name: herbert l.
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February 19, 2009 04:46 PM EST --
As leadoff batter, Stanky steps into the batter’s box at the start of a game, and just as the pitcher begins his windup, Stanky throws up his hand, steps out of the batter’s box, asks for a time out. . . .
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September 12, 2008 07:46 PM EDT --
Until June 1950, we always thought of Big Nose as Big-Nose Frankie, the Hustler, but then the North Koreans attacked the South and they began drafting guys by the thousands. Everyone eighteen had to register, . . .
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February 15, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
(Continued from Parts 1 and 2)
How shall summer's honey breath hold out against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days when rocks impregnable are not so stout, nor gates of steel so strong but . . .
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December 21, 2008 12:23 AM EST --
The week after my father bought me my first mitt, he took me to the Polo Grounds to see my first ballgame and to see how Major Leaguers played. I was hooked by the sheer beauty of the place before the . . .
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January 19, 2009 01:32 AM EST --
The boycott my Aunts Johanna and Margareta conducted against the British Empire always reminds me of my father’s story about the mouse making love to an elephant underneath a coconut tree. A coconut . . .
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February 28, 2009 04:44 PM EST --
Eddie Stanky was quoted as saying that if it meant being safe on a close play, he’d spike his own mother. I’m not certain he ever really said that. Or if he did say it, whether he truly would have spiked . . .
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July 13, 2009 03:04 PM EDT --
The two best series of trading cards were the Play Ball Cards and the Horrors of War Cards, both produced in the late 1930s and early ‘forties by Gum, Inc. of Philadelphia, PA. Play Ball Cards had . . .
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September 25, 2009 03:27 PM EDT --
One day when I came home from school, a woman who didn’t speak English was in our living room sewing a dress on my mother’s sewing machine. My mother spoke to her by using the dictionary . . .
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October 15, 2009 07:54 PM EDT --
“First, children must want to read,” Miss Anna F. Magill would tell the teachers who came from all over the United States to learn her methods. “And second, they must have something . . .
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April 09, 2008 05:57 PM EDT --
The Singles Hitter
continued from Way Things Used To Be 6
The years went by; I went off to college; the Korean War started, I went into the army, got out, wandered around Europe for five years, . . .
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April 09, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
The Singles Hitter
continued from Way Things Used To Be 6
The years went by; I went off to college; the Korean War started, I went into the army, got out, wandered around Europe for five years, . . .
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March 27, 2008 01:22 PM EDT --
Continued from Way Things Used To Be 5
MARBLE SEASON
Part 5
In punch ball Cedric always hit underhand, and never very hard, but he was a perfect place hitter. He'd bend at the waist . . .
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April 02, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Marble Season
Part 6
Just as I never saw another guy bend at the waist, legs straight and reach down to tie his shoes the way Cedric did, I never saw another guy shoot marbles his way either.
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October 23, 2009 04:07 PM EDT --
Because of her age, Miss Magill would leave the room for a few minutes from time to time. When she did, she brought in one of her former students, now in the upper grades, to serve as monitors. (This . . .
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October 20, 2008 06:11 PM EDT --
Toward the end of the War, my school sent me down to the Hotel Astor on Times Square as P.S.6’s representative to the Herald Tribune Youth Forum. The main speaker was Sergeant Joe Louis with whom I . . .
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May 14, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
During baseball’s golden years, the season ran from mid-April to the end of September and each team played symmetrical twenty-two game series against all seven other teams in its league, eleven at the . . .
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June 06, 2009 03:15 PM EDT --
Charles O. Finley abandoned Kansas City in 1968 and moved his Athletics to Oakland where their fortunes, but not their attendance, quickly improved. (They were replaced by the Kansas City Royals, . . .
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June 17, 2009 07:42 PM EDT --
I love the game of baseball, be it sandlot, Little League, minor league, women’s softball, or best of all, Big League. At the same time, I do not love the business of baseball or the way the new . . .
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February 13, 2008 11:02 AM EST --
We try to stop things from disappearing. We keep rings, bracelets, articles of clothing, preserve old letters written in ink that slowly fades until you can no longer make out the characters. The . . .
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September 23, 2008 05:15 PM EDT --
Standing in front of Theresa’s Drugstore, I would often see Maggie walk past, not exactly smiling, but with a happy expression—serene. Every time I saw her it made me wish I could get up the nerve to speak . . .
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