Tag: relationships
member name: herbert l.
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August 29, 2008 04:08 PM EDT --
Big-Nose Frankie was five years older than the rest of us which meant: 1-we never called him Big-Nose to his face, and: 2-whenever we had a party we went to him to buy the gin because we were not allowed . . .
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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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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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August 15, 2008 09:05 PM EDT --
The most interesting deliverymen to watch were the short, dark, silent men pushing open carts with metal wheels, loaded with three hundred pound cakes of ice. The cakes were a foot wide, a foot high . . .
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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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October 06, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
I’d heard Big Nose describe what he did with girls. He hadthree girlfriends already and was always trying for more even when one of themwas with him. The thought of him getting his hands on Maggie and . . .
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November 09, 2008 07:59 PM EST --
(Continued from The Way Things Used To Be 27--JoeLouis—Young)
Right after the Youth Forum ended I ran outside and caught Joe Louis in the hallway. He was wearing his army uniform and he . . .
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November 25, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
For my eighth birthday my father took me to Davega’s on Broadway near 86th for my first baseball mitt. I picked a glove signed by Steve Sundra, and my father took me down to Riverside Drive to play . . .
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December 27, 2008 08:27 PM EST --
Just as the history of the United States has been tied to the geography of North America, so the history of New York Giants baseball was tied to the asymmetrical bathtub shape of the Polo Grounds. . . .
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