—Barbara Stanwyck
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Barbara Stanwyck
Baseball
—Barbara Stanwyck
Books On My Night Table
I still remember the day when I heard that Sandy Koufax refused to pitch a World Series opening game because it was Yom Kippur.
It was, to say the least, something of a shock. We, baseball mad yeshiva kids, knew that the great Southpaw was a Jew from Bensonhurst, but we also knew that he was not observant. In fact, Koufax never even had a Bar Mitzvah. Shock was quickly replaced by pride as this assimilated Jewish superstar made a very public stand for, what we saw as, Torah values.
Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions
—Katharine Hepburn
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World Series 2017 and the Social Contract
The 2017 World Series between the Huston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers is one of the most exciting and evenly matched pairings I have ever seen.
Each game is an exercise in Hitchcockian suspense.
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Calling Good People “Racist” Isn’t New: The Case of Ty Cobb
Ruining someone’s name is very easy. So is calling them a “racist”. Take the case of Ty Cobb, one of the greatest baseball players ever. Cobb is known as a racist and a dirty ballplayer. Is it true? Charles Leerhsen, author of “Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty” sets the record straight.
