The Hawaii Islanders were Honolulu’s professional baseball entry in the Pacific Coast League from 1961 to 1987.  The franchise had moved to Honolulu from Sacramento in 1961 and the team...

By a happy coincidence, my return from the April meeting of the Rail Passengers Association in Washington takes me to Oakland where the Boston Red Sox will be playing the...

 Ralph Branca was on the mound for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Fall of 1951 for the deciding game with the then New York Giants to determine who would be...

I’ve followed the Boston Red Sox since I was nine … specifically, since the afternoon of May 25, 1946, when my Aunt Bobby took me to see the Red Sox...

I’ve been in Hawaii for more than 53 years, but I still remember what winter is like for you folks back east. You get up and go to work in...

By that I don’t mean you have actually made their acquaintance. But that’s the thing about our favorite writers, isn’t it? We really do feel that we know them. And...

The new web site is coming along quite nicely. It’s going to be a good deal more comprehensive than this one, with a lot more bells and whistles. At least...

A writer friend of mine once told me that everyone has at least one interesting story to tell. The fun, he said, is finding it. It’s a theory I try...

You have to grow up in New England to really understand what it means to be a Red Sox fan. As an 8- or 9-year-old, I would go to bed...

I suppose it’s a sure sign of approaching an advanced age when we realize how dramatically things have changed since we were kids … and can’t stop talking about it....