Month: March 2022

Between 54-year stints in Philadelphia (1901-1954) and Oakland (1968-2021 and who knows how much longer), the American League’s Athletics (“A’s” for short) played a largely forgettable 13 years (1955-1967) in Kansas City, Missouri’s Municipal Stadium. In 13 years, the Kansas City A’s had nothing but losing records. From 1955-1960, when there were only eight teams Read more . . .

It was 25 years ago today – March 4, 1997 – that Daddy called me, around 1:30 in the afternoon, and said three words: “Bill, she’s gone.” Mother had struggled with various ailments in the years before that – a bursitis attack in September 1992, followed by a stroke that November, and then a bacterial Read more . . .