Tag Archives: Satchel Paige

skull and no bones about it

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is a cover for a paranoid little book about the super secret fraternity associated with YALE university called “the order of skull & bones.” that jolly roger (with the mystical secret number ’322′ under it) in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aleister Crowley, Antony C. Sutton, art chantry, Austan Goolsbee, Averill Harriman, Conspiracy theories, George H.W. Bush, george w. bush, Henry Luce, Inslee Clark Jr., James Jesus Engleton, John Kerry, L. Ron Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard author of Fear, Lewis Lapham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Van Buren, Pancho Villa, Prescott Bush, Satchel Paige, Stephen Schwarzman, The Order of Skull & Bones Yale, William F. Buckley | 1 Comment

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

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 →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adam McDowell, April C.E. Langley, Artie Kornfeld, Aza Norenzayan, Baseball Color Barrier, Bert Sommer, Chinua Achebe, Clare Werbeloff, Dostoyevsky, Dr. Haidt, Eddie Stanky, Edward Wallerstein, Jackie Robinson, Jean Paul Sartre, Joan Pleune, John McGraw, Joseph Heinrich, Langston Hughes, Mark Twain, Pee Wee Reese, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, Ralph Abernathy, Ralph Bunche, Ralph Ellison, Russell Smith, Satchel Paige, Steven Heine, Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye, Tracey Chapman, Tracy Chapman, Ultimatum Game, William Behrends, William Faulkner | Leave a comment

The Alchemist, The Modern Lover & Vermeer

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Dave

Vermeer was eerie Vermeer was strange He had his own color range As if born in a more modern age They may be oh a hundred or so years ago What’s this a ghost in the gallery Great Scot the … Continue reading →