Richard Pennington (리처드 패닝턴)

• Home Field / An Illustrated History of 120 College Football Stadiums

  

  Ten years earlier, I had been engrossed in the history of UT’s Memorial Stadium. I learned what it had meant not only to the athletic program but to the university as a whole. During the research process for that book, I learned about other schools’ stadiums and saw they had their own stories to tell. If only to provide context in “For Texas, I Will,” I gathered information from elsewhere. In fact, the process started back in the 1970s when I first visited other college towns (Lexington,… read on

• Boston Red Sox Trivia Teasers

  

  I had edited a few books for Big Earth Publishing, a company out of Madison, Wisconsin. One of them was part of a series about various pro sports teams. The books were called “Trivia Teasers,” a name of which I was not especially fond. A question-and-answer format had been established, along with six chapter introductions. Anyway, this particular one pertained to the Chicago Cubs. I thought it was shallow, poorly researched, hastily written and obviously done by a person with little sense of… read on

• New York Yankees Trivia Teasers

  

  Today’s New York Yankees are such a behemoth of major league baseball—with 27 championships, an annual payroll north of $200 million, a new stadium costing $1.5 billion and a list of alumni far exceeding what any other franchise can claim—that it is hard to believe they were ever the new kid on the block and a weakling at that. If you go back in time, as I was obliged to do in this book, you will see an inauspicious beginning. They were originally the Baltimore Orioles, moving to New York in… read on

• Texas Longhorns / Football History A to Z

  

  This is going to sound like the deal with Big Earth Publishing and the Trivia Teasers series, but here goes. I had done some editing for Maple Street Press, a Boston-based company, and one thing led to another. Jim Walsh, the president and managing editor, agreed to publish my book on the history of University of Texas football, a topic that—it must be admitted—had been covered a few times before. I was well equipped to write it; I had been on and around the UT campus for about 35 years, I… read on

• Denver Broncos Trivia Teasers

  

  The only connection I had to the Denver Broncos could be traced to my 10th birthday, December 9, 1962. My father had a part-time job parking cars in the lots surrounding the Cotton Bowl. I do not know what he was paid, but he got free entrance to every college and pro football game at which he worked. Like a lot of Texans, Dad was a football fanatic. He did his duty that day, and we entered the big, old stadium. The Broncos, one of the weaklings of the American Football League, lost to the… read on

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