by Dan Lovallo | Mar 17, 2019 | BLOG
Shea Stadium, once the home of the New York Mets and New York Jets, almost had a dome. Fueled by the soon-to-be-opened Astrodome in Houston, New York city officials became convinced, enclosing Shea and putting a roof on it would enable the city-run facility to be used...
by Dan Lovallo | Mar 10, 2019 | BLOG
I was so saddened to hear the news about Tom Seaver’s health problems and how he will be withdrawing from public life because of dementia. Perhaps my favorite Tom Seaver memory occurred 50 years ago in that glorious summer of 1969. My dad, two brothers and...
by Dan Lovallo | Mar 3, 2019 | BLOG
The Mayor of New York City, Bill De Blasio, makes no secret of the fact he is a dyed-in-the-wool Boston Red Sox fan. He even attended the Red Sox-Orioles spring training game on Mar. 2 in Ft. Myers. But what if the New York Yankees won the World Series? De...
by Dan Lovallo | Feb 20, 2019 | BLOG
Elston Howard let it be known he wanted to become Major League Baseball’s first black manager, when he was a still a player. In Hannah Withiam’s excellent piece in the Athletic, she writes about Howard’s disappointment at not being selected as...
by Dan Lovallo | Dec 31, 2018 | BLOG
It is a good thing the NFL is America’s national pastime, because if professional football was like Major League Baseball, a parochial sport, the game would be screwed. It is a good thing the NFL is not dependent on the nation’s number one media...