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Remembering My Friend Bill Shannon

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Back in 2007, on a random night at Shea Stadium, I got into a conversation after the Met game about the Brooklyn Dodgers with my friend Bill Shannon. We sat in the cafeteria and gave me – and radio reporter  Bob Trainor – a blow by blow description on why Walter O’Malley moved his team [...]

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So Long, Mr. Harwell

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The Detroit Tigers happened to be out of town this past May 4th–playing at the new Target Field in Minnesota. Soon came the seventh-inning stretch and a picture of a smiling Ernie Harwell graced the stadium’s bright, new big screen. The news was then announced–though many fans were already privy to the inevitable: the Hall [...]

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An Excerpt From “The Greatest Ballpark Ever”

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It was a mysterious photograph, shot at about a 60-degree angle from the ground up, of an old, bishop’s crook New York lamppost.  Its decorative flourishes ended in a large glass globe, which poured forth a soft yellow glow rather than today’s harsh, blue-white fluorescence.  It looked to be an overcast day, but the framed [...]

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