Baltimore will never forget Babe Ruth
Three-quarters of a century since George Herman (Babe) Ruth took his final breath, his hometown folks have not forgotten him.
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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.
Author: Michael Olesker
Americans have grown numb to tales of political crimes as the US Supreme Court moves at a snail’s pace
BALTIMORE – People around here used to boast, sarcastically, that we led the league in political corruption. After all, we
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Remembering Graduation
But 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.
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O.J. Simpson’s Verdict Showed us the Distance in America’s Racial Divide
The 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.
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Peter Angelos’ hometown loyalty should not be forgotten
Peter 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.
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After the Super Bowl CBS Sports Division is headed for the ‘agony of defeat’
But, 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?
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Carroll County Public School System bows to Moms for Liberty and bans books on sex
BALTIMORE – The great thinkers in the Carroll County public school system believe they’re doing their students a favor. The
Read moreOrioles stadium issues bring back memories of the Mayflower vans moving the Colts
We’re sensitive souls around here. We don’t like it when people in power fail to tell us the whole truth. We saw it happen precisely 40 years ago this week with our pro football team, and now a few questions linger about our baseball team.
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Sixty years ago today ranks as the most shocking moment of my life
I was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, walking through Cole Fieldhouse on my way to a required freshman phys ed lecture on personal health and hygiene. As I got to class, the news from Dallas was still unclear: Was Kennedy really shot? Was he still alive?
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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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