With The Beatles We had “Meet The Beatles!” before the band appeared on “Ed Sullivan.” The single of “She Loves You” on Swan backed with “I’ll Get You” too, actually we had that first. They called it “Beatlemania,” and it truly was. “I Want To Hold Your Hand” exploded out of transistors right after the […]

We finished it yesterday. For those playing the home game, yesterday was my birthday. With its triple tradition of Langer’s pastrami, hot fudge sundae and a movie or two or three. It didn’t quite work out that way. Actually, I prefer to be skiing on my birthday, but the prednisone has my calf freaking out […]

I am the only one fucked up about this? I was at a doctor’s appointment and when I got out my phone was blowing up. Put me in a bad mood, ruined my whole day. Death is final. What about this do young people not understand? I’m not sure what happened here. But I’m thinking […]

I lived to play baseball. This was back when the Yankees never lost and the Giants were in San Francisco and the biggest stars in the game were Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays. I knew that Mickey grew up in Oklahoma and suffered from osteomyelitis and I purchased a biography of the Say Hey Kid […]