Abner Haynes met his new teammates in August 1956, in a parking lot outside of Fouts Field on the North Texas State campus. He would be the first black football player in school history, and none of the White Eagles had been consulted on the...
When Babe Ruth’s spirit ascended to that great baseball diamond in the sky in 1948, his body lay in state in the Yankee Stadium rotunda, allowing 105,000 people to pass by; about 75,000 stood in the rain outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral the...
Six-foot-eight David Miller played varsity basketball for Southern Methodist University from 1970 to 1972. Not a star by any stretch of the imagination (9.1 points and 5.8 rebounds per game), he nevertheless contributed to his team winning a...
I visited Dr. Roman Kintanar in Quezon City, the Philippines back in 1994. My main purpose was to gather information about his life (a doctorate in physics at UT in 1951 and nearly 40 years as head of the country’s weather bureau) for my book...
The New York City Marathon took place last weekend, which put me in a reflective mood. I ran that race in 1989, exactly 30 years ago. My time was 2:54:59, and I came in 858th out of 24,492 entrants. The story at hand, however, is not about me...
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