In the spring of 1983, I started working on my first book. It pertained to racial integration of Southwest Conference football. I was deeply disappointed when I learned that John Westbrook had died. What guts it must have taken to walk onto the...
For more than 100 days now, people in the once-lovely town of Portland, Oregon have been rioting, burning, looting, vandalizing, terrorizing and protesting in the name of “social justice.” Nothing they have done upsets me more than...
Frank Sinatra recorded “There Used to Be a Ballpark” in 1973. If this does not rank among classics like “My Way,” “Strangers in the Night” and “New York, New York,” it was still a good one. The song captured how a community had lost its baseball...
Back in 2013, my student Juliana Kim spoke enthusiastically about skiing at Vivaldi Park, 63 kilometers east of Seoul, every winter with her husband and children. Whether they visited the place in summer for its equally famous water resort, I am...
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