Pete Rose deserves immortality: Put him in the Hall of Fame
The last time I saw Pete Rose, he was spitting in the eye of major league baseball. The lords of
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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 several 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.
The last time I saw Pete Rose, he was spitting in the eye of major league baseball. The lords of
Read moreRonald Reagan did himself a lot of good when he ran against Walter Mondale. Reagan was 73, which was considered old. Reagan quipped, “I want you to know that I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” Mondale was 56.
Read moreIt was an irony of history that Ehrlich picked a Black running mate and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend did not. She picked a white man with a military background so that she wouldn’t be branded too liberal by Ehrlich.
Read moreThree-quarters of a century since George Herman (Babe) Ruth took his final breath, his hometown folks have not forgotten him.
Read moreBALTIMORE – People around here used to boast, sarcastically, that we led the league in political corruption. After all, we
Read moreBut I’ve made up for a single graduation absence by showing up for more than a dozen others – glad occasions where various schools, high school, and college, invited me to be their commencement speaker, in that extended era when I was writing nightly TV commentaries and thrice-weekly newspaper columns.
Read moreThe verdict that acquitted O.J. Simpson of murdering two people, one of whom was his wife, painfully revealed the lingering American racial divide as we’d rarely seen it before.
Read morePeter Angelos goes to his grave, at 94, as the most vilified guy in town. The man who owned the Baltimore Orioles for three decades should have been a hero around here, but he couldn’t get out of his own way.
Read moreBut, as CBS prepares for Sunday’s Super Bowl – the 22nd time the network has broadcast the big game, which is the most of any network – is CBS’ sports division heading toward long-distance defeat, as McManus takes his final bows and heads toward spring retirement?
Read moreBALTIMORE – The great thinkers in the Carroll County public school system believe they’re doing their students a favor. The
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