I dreamed I saw Joe DiMaggio last night, alive as you and me.
Tom Alderman | Posted 01.09.2012
Marilyn Monroe lives on as the last of an archetype we cling to from our innocent past but is now gone forever -- or until a future generation invents her again.
Posted 11.30.2011
On December 15, Profiles In History begins the "Icons of Hollywood" auction -- an event that has Hollywood history-buffs and cinephiles across the wo...
Len Berman | Posted 10.05.2011
The ballpark has become a menagerie. What with scoreboards making so much noise, and telling fans to get louder. So I have to applaud the Texas Rangers. They want to ban the wave.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.09.2011
Chick Corea's new album, Forever, is a two-disc set, with the first disc being acoustic, and the second disc with a full band and guests. For the first disc, I asked him if it was a return to Return To Forever.
Kostya Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011
Baseball milestones will be reached, and records may fall, this season. But you can bet that by season's end DiMaggio's hitting streak, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, will still be standing.
Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 05.25.2011
With his latest book, Beyond DiMaggio, Lawrence Baldassaro offers a profound analysis on how baseball links to the Italian-American experience.
Matthew Jacob | Posted 05.25.2011
Turtle soup might have disappeared completely in the U.S. had it not been for the Internet. The web has allowed those selling exotic goods to find consumers, and farm-raised turtle meat can be ordered online.
Posted 05.25.2011
Former Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose spoke with Mike Missanelli on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia and told a wild story about a trip he took to V...
Stanley H. Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a widespread chorus shouting about baseball becoming increasingly boring. The reality is that although the contests have acquired more of an entertainment atmosphere, the thrust of excitement has waned because of two primary factors.
Paul Orzulak | Posted 05.25.2011
As a lifelong Red Sox fan who actually thought about naming his oldest daughter "Yaz," it pains me to no end that one of my fondest memories in life involves an encounter at Yankee Stadium with Joe DiMaggio and George Steinbrenner.
The Huffington Post | Caroline Eisenmann and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
What better reading could there be in the thick of the summer than books on our national pastime? As we look forward to tonight's Major League All-Sta...
Eugene Michael Santiago | Posted 05.25.2011
Bob Sheppard was a voice of the game who became bigger than the game. In the wake of his death, we must not forget the legacy of the man who called Yankee games for 56 years.
Cheryl Carlesimo | Posted 05.25.2011
Our good friend George Duran, the host of Food Network's Ham on the Street, and now TLC's Ultimate Cake Off, grew up in Venezuela where baseball is an obsession, and he shared his recipe for Venezuelan Hot Dogs with us.
Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011
Pinstripe paranoia, a seasonal ailment, has plagued many of us since 1949. Then, in 2004, came deliverance, along with reduction of sorrow and a fresh perspective.
Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011
Given that the team's super-rich owners used taxpayer subsidies to help finance their gilded ballpark, it serves them right that they're losing some revenue.
Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011
Now, more than ever, Yankees fans need Bob Sheppard's golden voice to make us feel at home in our new home.
Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011
What's not to like about a sickeningly posh edifice partly funded by massive subsidies from taxpayers who can't afford its ultra-expensive tickets and food?
Don Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
As a public service, here is our newly updated list of the remaining things that haven't happened yet: African-American elected president of United ...
Terence Clarke | Posted 02.29.2012