Tag Archives: Jackie Robinson

uncanny valley of reality

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dave

There was a post yesterday on Branch Rickey, the baseball general manager who masterminded the integration of baseball and signed Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and others to his Brooklyn Dodgers roster. Rickey was an enigmatic figure, occupying some uncanny valley … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Branch Rickey, Charlie Dressen, Jackie Robinson, Jimmy Breslin, leo durocher, Mac Kreindler, red barber, Satchel Paige, tex rickards, The Gashouse Gang, Tom Seats, Werner Fassbinder | Leave a comment

the thin white line

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dave

He was known for the quote, “luck is the residue of opportunity and design,” even though it was most likely a misattribution, but even then, John Milton and Paradise Lost could have served as pretext for much of Branch Rickey’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged billy beane, bobby bragan, Branch Rickey, Buck O'Neill, don newcombe, Jackie Robinson, Jimmy Breslin, John Milton Paradise Lost, Josh Gibson, Ken Burns, michael Lewis Moneyball, roger kahn, roy campanella, sam breadon, Satchel Paige | Leave a comment

dads and diamonds: fields of schemes and dreams

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dave

Samir could just not figure it out. The old man had come over from the Old Country in the early 1950′s and started a new business in a new land. Father George was from the old school. A lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baseball Color Barrier, Branch Rickey, eddie stankey, Jackie Robinson, leo durocher, the munsters, the munsters tv series | Leave a comment

just good enough

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Dave

The risk taker. Difficult. unsupportable. In many respects deeply flawed with a taste for the spotlight, fine clothing and the better things in life to a degree that was uncommon. An intensity and passion that was almost frightening. But also … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged A.B. Happy Chandler, Baseball Color Barrier, Branch Rickey, casey stengel, don adams, Ebbets field, Ed Stanky, Jackie Robinson, leo durocher, nikolai leskov, Norman Rockwell, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin, Wille Mays | Leave a comment

don’t beat him he’s only the fiddler

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Dave

Joshua Bell impersonating an itinerant playing violinist in Washington DC .Its a living. It was not an original idea in that this set-up had been enacted in New York and within other contexts as well. Bell played six Bach pieces … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged albert einstein violin, danielle lloyd, eichmann trial, itzhak perlman, Jackie Robinson, jansz van adriaen painting, john williams soundtrack, joshua bell, kitty genovese, michelangelo the pieta, Niccolo Paganini, Norman Rockwell, papa john creach, Philip Zimbardo, Richard Hamilton, Stanley Milgram, wandalin-strzalecki painting | Leave a comment

a herd of mobile muskrats

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he at the end of the street,… ( T.S. Eliot ) As Occupy Wall Street … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged babe ruth, casey stengel, cornel west, eddie stankey, frankie graham, Franz Kafka, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Bellows, Harold Pinter, Jack Levine, Jackie Robinson, Jonathan McIntosh, leo durocher, mel ott, occupy wall street, Paul Tillich, richard fischer Dallas Fed, rouchefoucauld, T.S. Eliot, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin, Z communications Michael Albert | Leave a comment

speak white: liberty is a black word

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Dave

Speak white. National Patriots Day coincides with Victoria Day. But, the juxtaposition is a bit peculiar, since it honors the rebellion against the British in 1837… Quebec has always been a case study in the sometimes jarring contradictions between form … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged charles papasoff, Cornelius Krieghoff, daniel boucher, francis leclerc, Jackie Robinson, leandre bergeron, Lord Durham, louis joseph papineau, michele lalonde, national patriots day quebec, Peter C.Newman, pierre falardeau, Pierre Vallieres, robertson davies, speak white michele lalonde, william lyon mackenzie | Leave a comment

CASEY AT THE PLATE: BATTER UP IN BABYLON

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Dave

Gambling, like pornography, has somehow arranged itself to be completely normalized; an integral element in our service based economy. It is still on the margins of acceptable discourse at the Sunday family supper, sort of doing a limbo under the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Abbott and Costello, Abner Doubleday, Arnold Rothstein, Bernard Malamud, Branch Rickey, Cap Anson, Daniel E. Ginsburg, Ernest Becker, Ernest L. Thayer, Helena Blavatsky, Howard Rosenberg, Jackie Robinson, James Lincoln Ray, John Cahill, Mark Newman, Mike Bauman, Peter Toms, Roy Hobbs, Rube Foster, Satchel Paige, Shakespeare, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Viktor Frankl, wayne and shuster, William Randolph Hearst, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

THE ULTIMATUM TEAM: ARE WE ALL PLAYING IN THE SAME BAND?

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Dave

We’re all playing in the same band There’s enough guitars for you and me Stand beside your brother and take his hand Seems the times are changing finally We’re all playing in the same band Sing the song together and … Continue reading →