I pitched the idea to my wife, Sara, and son, Jack, at the end of March: How about a quick overnight trip to North Carolina in early May, to watch minor league and college baseball and revisit some of our…
Baseball
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Apr 04
40 years after: the season ‘The Bird’ transfixed baseball fans
I never saw Mark “The Bird” Fidrych in person. I’m not even sure I saw him pitch on television much beyond his breakout performance on ABC’s “Monday Night Baseball” on June 28, 1976. That night was all I needed to…
Jan 11
Slam dunk: ‘different concept’ wins sporting goods game
In a box in my basement are folders containing clips of the hundreds of stories I wrote during seven-plus years as a business reporter for the York Daily Record. I recently went through the clips as research for another upcoming…
