Ol’ Silent Cal came to the Black Hills of South Dakota to vacation in the summer of 1927 and the magnanimous native people who considered...

Stan the Man, maybe the most talented nice guy to ever lace up a pair of spikes, and The Duke of Earl, one of the most competitive and...

The author and historian Shelby Foote, his narrative history of the Civil War  – all 1.5 million words of it – remains one of the...

Of course the great and terrible American Civil War – across the country we are commemorating its 150th anniversary – eventually became a...

Not Guilty as Sin So the Rocket walks and baseball’s long twilight struggle with performance enhancing drugs slips slowly, slowly away,...

I never saw Rogers Hornsby play baseball – he quit playing in 1937 – but I’m still pretty sure he was among the best right-handed hitters...

I’m no Yankee fan and Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) said it for all time in A League of Their Own, “there’s no crying in baseball,” but every...

Jamie Moyer, the 49 year old left-hander who is now throwing his junk for the Colorado Rockies, recently became the oldest pitcher to...

One Tough Job Now that the pundits have finally agreed that Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee, we can devote...

Should you desire to get caught up on your political reading, here are several “must reads” to start the week: Walter Shapiro has a tough...

The World Series winning manager was on David Letterman’s show last night – he’s earned a victory lap – talking about his unlikely last...

The sport page headline in the Boston Herald this morning: “The Choke’s on Us.” Herald columnist John Tomase captured the full agony of...

The following letter appeared recently in the New York Times… To the Editor: Only a Yankee fan ensconced in that new shopping mall in the...

Bob Uecker – “Mr. Baseball” – best known now as a broadcaster, movie star and funny guy, wasn’t much of a major league ball player....

Growing up and loving baseball, I remember having near complete admiration for the daring exploits of the Big Red Machine and...

I woke up this morning thinking of writing something about the GOP debate last night in New Hampshire. But that encounter, featuring...

Bill Neukom, now the managing general partner and CEO of my beloved San Francisco Giants, seems like one of those guys who has led ten...

Commie Bashing Baseball Talent Scout The passing of the great Harmon Killebrew recently caused a few Idaho political, history and...

One of the Greats Passes Just when it seems that spring may final have come, it turns out to be a sad, sad day. The Great Killebrew is...

I’m not sure what to be more shocked about this morning: the breaking news that long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans may have to endure more...