Coming Attractions: Society for American Baseball Research Convention
A post by Baseball Toaster alum Bob Timmermann (in private life he’s a librarian at LAPL) alerted me to the upcoming convention of the Society for American Baseball Research, July 6-10 at the Long...
View ArticleFrom the Stacks: ‘The Big Picture’
I picked up “The Big Picture,” Melba Levick and Stanley Young’s 1988 book about Los Angeles murals, not realizing what a terribly sad book it would be. As Young notes: “Most artists are aware that,...
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A summary of history-related posts on the Web: Chicago Tribune The Trib has an item on the Children’s Museum remaining at Navy Pier rather than moving to Grant Park as the facility is transferred to...
View ArticleEve Golden: Queen of the Dead
Photo: 2003 Cadillac Superior Hearse for sale on EBay. Bidding starts at $12,100 with a reserve. Queen of the Dead – dateline September 26, 2011 • Last week I announced the last Black Knight of Glin,...
View ArticleEve Golden: Queen of the Dead
Photo: 1997 Cadillac hearse for sale on EBay. Bidding starts at $3,800. Queen of the Dead—dateline November 14, 2011 • Family Circus has long been one of those legacy comics you love to hate. But I...
View ArticleFound on EBay – Witzel Photo of Sid Ziff
A Witzel photo of Sid Ziff, the Mirror’s sports editor from 1950 to 1962 and a sports columnist at The Times until his retirement in 1967, has been listed on EBay. Ziff was “one of the most...
View ArticleAngry Butcher Cuts Wife’s Throat
Betty Rowland at the Follies! Photo: 6152 Agra St. Credit: Google Street View. Feb. 2, 1942: Lewis Buell Chase dialed the sheriff’s substation in Firestone Park and told a deputy: “I have just...
View ArticleBowling for Victory! Keglers vs. the Axis!
Feb. 16, 1942: America’s 16 million bowlers are being asked to help promote physical fitness and mental alertness for the nation’s fighting men in their war against the Axis, and to provide relaxation...
View ArticleMary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Horse Racing and Can’t Wait
Feb. 15, 1938: Stagehand noses out Can’t Wait. Horse racing has always been considered the sport of kings, because it requires so much money for housing, training, feeding, and transporting horses....
View ArticleMovieland Mystery Photo – Baseball Edition [Updated]
I was watching this movie recently and got to wondering what ballparks were used as locations. In some scenes, the movie intercuts stock footage with shots that were presumably done in Los Angeles...
View ArticleMillennial Moment: Prison Escapee Slaughters Family
Aug. 2, 1983: Terry Atkinson reviews the L.A. debut of the Eurythmics at the Palace, saying: “Move over, Chrissie Hynde and Martha Davis, and make room for Annie Lennox.” Kevin Cooper is arraigned in...
View ArticleJerry Lewis – The Day the Clown Played Baseball
I was fairly certain that I had written about this uniform – or at least a uniform – for Jerry Lewis’ baseball team, the Clowns, but I can’t seem to locate the post anywhere. In any event, a uniform...
View ArticleLos Angeles Prepares to Celebrate a Wartime Christmas
Dec. 19, 1943: Los Angeles prepares to celebrate Christmas with a focus on service members, while U.S. troops fight the Nazis in hand-to-hand combat for the Italian town of San Pietro. The Times...
View ArticleLAPD Officer Accused of Hitting Handcuffed Prisoner, March 5, 1914
March 5, 1914: Spring training! I jumped back to 1914 to see if I could find out anything about the Police Commissions order against non-Asian women in Oriental cafes. No luck, alas, but I did find a...
View Article1944 on the Radio — Constance Bennett Visits ‘Bill Stern’s Sports Newsreel,’...
March 17, 1944 It’s Friday in 1944 and today we have: — Andy finally located Madam Queen in “The Amos ‘N’ Andy Show.” Courtesy of Archive.org. — Constance Bennett is the guest on “Bill Stern’s Sports...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Play ball! Motion Picture Studios Play...
The Selig baseball team, courtesy of the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library Long before there was radio, television, the Internet, social media, computer games or rotisserie leagues, major...
View ArticleCarlos Valdez Lozano: L.A., Friday Night
Paramount Ballroom, 2708 E. Cesar Chavez Ave., via Google Street View. Note: Here’s a post from my Times colleague Carlos Valdez Lozano about an adventure he had with the late George Ramos and...
View ArticleWikipedia vs. Joe Streater
Thanks to Earl Boebert for pointing us to this one. From Awfulannouncing.com: For years, [Joe] Streater has been falsely linked with one of the greatest scandals in the history of college sports....
View ArticleWikipedia Strikes Again: Madison Bumgarner Edition
This entry on Madison Bumgarner has been fixed. But that it happened at all illustrates one of the main weaknesses of Wikipedia, which can be edited by anyone. Via Romenesko. The apparent vandal,...
View ArticleComing Attractions: Society for American Baseball Research Convention
A post by Baseball Toaster alum Bob Timmermann (in private life he’s a librarian at LAPL) alerted me to the upcoming convention of the Society for American Baseball Research, July 6-10 at the Long...
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