by Dan Lovallo | Nov 27, 2018 | BLOG
It seems a baseball season doesn’t go by without talk of speeding up the pace of play. Who knew that 51 years ago the topic was a focal point at the annual winter baseball meetings being held in 1967 in Mexico City? The stewards of the game were concerned...
by Dan Lovallo | Nov 26, 2018 | BLOG
This is the way it was supposed to be, right? No special treatment for politicians, no admission to luxury boxes, sit among the common folk. And so it was that on Nov. 26, 1960 at the Army-Navy game, there seated in the general admission seats were Vice...
by Dan Lovallo | Nov 24, 2018 | BLOG
NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle was widely criticized 55 years ago for not cancelling the league’s games the Sunday after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The AFL wasted little time in announcing its games would not be played on Nov. 24, but Rozelle...
by Dan Lovallo | Nov 22, 2018 | BLOG
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. In case you’re wondering, as I write this from my home in Torrington, Connecticut this morning, it is 11 degrees – not counting windchill factor – or 13 degrees colder than Anchorage, Alaska. Good luck to all my friends...
by Dan Lovallo | Nov 21, 2018 | BLOG
When Harvard beat Yale in “The Game” at Fenway Park last Saturday, I could not help but be reminded that the iconic Vin Scully made his radio debut at Fenway. The year was 1949 and in addition to his role as the “Voice of the Brooklyn...