Take Me Out to the Ball Game Soon
The first time my father took me to a major league baseball game, at the old Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street, I thought I was entering a kind of holy place.
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Michael Olesker, columnist for the News American, Baltimore Sun, and Baltimore Examiner has spent a quarter of a century writing about the city he loves.He is the author of five previous books, including Michael Olesker’s Baltimore: If You Live Here, You’re Home, Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, and The Colts’ Baltimore: A City and Its Love Affair in the 1950s, all published by Johns Hopkins Press.
Author: Michael Olesker
Stop Fighting the Civil War and Start by Tearing down the Confederate Flags and Statues
The South lost that war but got to keep all its flags, which sympathizers wave about as if taunting the winners, declaring, “Hey, we’re still here.” And they built statutes to those turncoats who tried to tear America apart.
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Inspirational: Blacks and Whites Protesting Together Against Racial Injustice
They’re saying what our better angels have been saying for years: America wasn’t created to “dominate” one another, but to learn from each other, and to find each other’s better selves, whatever we happen to look like.
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George Floyd’s Brutal Murder: Racism is Tearing America Apart
As pieces of America burn, this city instinctively winces. This time the anger follows a Minneapolis man named George Floyd, murdered in front of everyone’s eyes. But here we still remember five years ago and the televised rage and rioting that followed the death of Freddie Gray.
Read moreBaltimore’s Tragic Loss: Notre Dame Closes After Helping Students Reach for the World
The sign said, “Reach for the World.” It was there when those two remarkable political figures were students at Notre Dame, and maybe it remains. But now there’s no one reaching for their checkbooks, and so goes the school, and so goes a marvelous history.
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Sports Can Heal A Country Even With Empty Seats
BALTIMORE – The first time I took my wife to that oasis of humanity known as the infield on Preakness
Read moreWe Survived Nixon and LBJ and We Will Survive Trump
If you think America’s angry and divided in the age of Donald Trump, you’re right. If you think we’ve never been through such bitterness before this, you’re wrong.
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COVID-19 Balancing Act: Money or Your Life?
BALTIMORE – There’s an ancient Jack Benny routine that allegedly drew the longest laugh in all of radio history. But
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Gov. Larry Hogan Bucks GOP Trend and Speaks the Truth about Trump
This article is republished with permission from JMORE. When people talk about the simple courage to tell the truth during
Read moreFreddie Gray’s Death Five Years Ago Was Not the Sole Reason Behind Baltimore’s Riots
In our time of enforced isolation, we’re as quiet here as any American city, and maybe more reflective. It’s the five-year anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray and the street violence that followed.
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