All posts tagged "baseball"
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18.4K12Arts and LeisureHow To Talk With a Boston Accent (Not for the Faint of Haht)
The Boston accent has brought many an actor to grief, especially these days as films about the city just keep coming. George...
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2.9KMassachusettsFrank Grant Fights Baseball’s Color Line and High Spikes
After Frank Grant lost his battle to play on integrated baseball teams, almost 50 years would go by before Jackie Robinson reintegrated...
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30.0K1Politics and MilitaryThe MTL Insanity File of Robert Todd Lincoln Discovered
Robert Todd Lincoln burned most of his papers and correspondence before he died. Most, but not all. He saved a collection of...
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6.1KConnecticutConstance Baker Motley Faces Down Racism
Constance Baker Motley encountered overt racism for the first time when she left her home in New Haven to attend Fisk College...
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7.7K2Arts and LeisureSix Art Deco Gems
You don’t have to go to Miami or Hollywood for an Art Deco experience. New England has plenty of Art Deco office...
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9.1K3MassachusettsNew England’s Yellow Day of 1881 Stokes Fears of Doomsday
On Sept. 7, 1881, Boston’s temperature hit 102 degrees, but at least New England’s latest yellow day had cleared. On Sept. 6,...
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10.0K1MassachusettsRocky Marciano, the Real Rocky, Came From Massachusetts
Rocky Marciano, a favorite of working-class boxing fans in the 1950s, inspired the fictional Rocky Balboa in the films from 1976 to...
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11.1K2bostonThe Sumner League, Connecticut’s Forgotten Civil Rights Society
The story was long forgotten: A New Haven bootblack became a leader in the fight against Jim Crow as president of a...
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16.2K8Arts and LeisureBabe Ruth Throws a Piano Into a Pond
Babe Ruth once got drunk while in Sudbury, Mass., and threw a piano into Willis Pond to show off his strength. That,...
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36.9K12ConnecticutThe Secret History of New England’s Sundown Towns
“Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark” reads the faded road sign, an artifact on display at the Tubman African American Museum...
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