‘Twas
the week of Thanksgiving, I sat at my house
While
the feline was silently tracking a mouse;
Long
stockings of blue washed and folded with care,
In
hopes a Spring invite soon would be there;
My
children were school-bound, ...
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1960 World Series – Game #3
RANCE — Chuck Thompson opened the broadcast by reviewing the 16 - 3 Yankees win in Game 2, and brought up how much the series’ move to New York favors the Yankees. Like any good broadcaster will do, he told us not to count out ...
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1960 World Series – Game #2
A tale of two All-Stars that’s almost as long as something
Charles Dickens would write.
The First Inning
ETHAN — The broadcast started with the first pitch, no
pre-show, no Gillette commercials, so I looked up the line-ups on ...
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1960 World Series – Game #1
The first time I had lunch with Bill Virdon, he told me about his Spring Training with the Yankees, the team who signed him after watching him at an open tryout in Branson, Missouri. The Yankees had young superstar Mickey Mantle as their ...
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Sophie’s Shark Dive
“On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being, ‘This is the best day of my life,’ how excited are you for the Shark Dive?” I asked Sophie as we were driving for an early lunch at Chick-fil-A.
Sophie thought about her answer just long enough ...
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