Category Archives: Baseball

Jackie Robinson and 42

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th May 2013

Tweet I went to see the new movie about Jackie Robinson with reluctance and trepidation. Robinson was the hero of my youth. I remember his first season in Brooklyn vividly. He was an athletic hero who really was a hero. I was worried that Hollywood would mess up his story. The film focuses on Robinson’s signing by…


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Why the Baseball Playoffs are an Elaborate Coin Toss

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th October 2011

Tweet Consider this: According to Elias, out of the 52 best-of-seven series in baseball history to be tied 2-2 after four games, as this one was, the winner of Game 5 went on to win the series 36 times, or 69 percent of the time… The author of this insight got paid for making it. A…


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Duke Snider – RIP

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 27th February 2011

Tweet Duke Snider, one of my boyhood heroes died today; he was 84. I’ve already written about him and the rest of the Brooklyn Dodgers – here.  One of the great players on a great team. He was a power hitter who fielded with grace. He played on a team that was from another world….


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Baseball Hall of Fame Permanently Contaminated

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th August 2008

Tweet Walter O’Malley was recently inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame. If you grew up in Brooklyn when the Brooklyn Dodgers were still there as I did there is no worse villain than Walter O’Malley. O’Malley’s  election to baseball’s Hall of Fame is as apposite as the Pope bestowing sainthood on Vladimir Putin. If you…


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