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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 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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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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September 07, 2009 07:35 PM EDT --
After card eighteen the compositions of the Horrors of War cards seemed to open up and grow less crowded. In addition, the subject matter expanded from the Sino-Japanese War to the Spanish Civil War . . .
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August 26, 2009 03:42 PM EDT --
The pastel-colored scenes on the front had a yellowish tint and depicted so much death and violence some parents forbade their children to buy them. The first twenty in the series were as lacking . . .
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August 16, 2009 02:03 PM EDT --
Part 2—The Coquillages
I left the café, strolled up the boulevard, took a table in a seafood restaurant and ordered mussels, a green salad and a bottle of Rhone red. As I finished Camus’ . . .
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August 06, 2009 01:32 PM EDT --
Part 1-Camus And Lincoln
A couple of months ago, I was sitting in a cafe on Boulevard du Montparnasse, having a drink before dinner, rereading THE REBEL, half-hoping to be interrupted by some intellectual . . .
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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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June 28, 2009 04:55 PM EDT --
When you walked into Ma’s Junk Shop on west Eighty-Ninth in Manhattan, you saw a small soda fountain with three stools to your left, and then a long glass display case filled with the hundred different . . .
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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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June 07, 2009 12:51 AM 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 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 04, 2009 01:01 AM EDT --
During baseball’s golden years, the teams were owned by men who treasured the game and dabbled at the business. In the 1950s the teams got bought by corporations whose executives treasured the business . . .
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May 25, 2009 08:12 PM EDT --
After the Giants and Dodgers abandoned New York City and moved to California in 1958, the changes in Major League baseball accelerated. In 1961 the original Washington Senators moved to Minneapolis, took . . .
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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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May 04, 2009 12:51 PM EDT --
When I saw my first Major League game, baseball was known as “America’s Favorite Game,” and “The National Pastime.” The year was 1940 and there were sixteen Major League teams, all in the Northeast and . . .
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March 27, 2009 01:32 AM EDT --
Baseball record books are filled with statistics on home runs, runs batted in, earned run averages, etc. but there’s nothing in them on the intangible factors of the game. For example--in . . .
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March 08, 2009 04:24 PM EDT --
Eddie Stanky and Alvin Dark complemented one another in the field, just as they did at bat and on the bases. In 1950, with them at second and shortstop, the Giants executed 181 double plays in 154 games, . . .
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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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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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