My parents moved to Brooklyn in 1955 when I was almost two years old, and by the time I was four, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had played their last home games in the five boroughs. Until Casey Stengel and the Mets arrived in 1962, the only baseball team in town was the Read More
Pipp was the Yankee first baseman who, according to legend, went out with a headache one day in 1925, and had the misfortune of a backup named Lou Gehrig. The story gave me a bit of stress during the Observer’s otherwise peaceful week off. But Benson evidently couldn’t be persuaded to return and replace Read More
He liked small talk. He hated signing autographs. He was married to one
of the most famous women in the world, but he
never– never –talked about it. And even his teammates found
him an enigma.
Joe DiMaggio was a sports legend, an American icon and a modern Mona
Lisa–haunting and unknowable, open to Read More
