Einar Gustafson was a 12-year-old cancer patient who launched the Jimmy Fund in 1948 and then quietly succumbed to the disease. Or...
Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a...
Frederick Small, an awful little man, thought of himself as an astute businessman. He wasn’t. An abusive husband, he thought he committed...
A July 1911 heat wave killed thousands of New Englanders and sent many over the brink of madness. During 11 hellish days,...
In the summer of 1934, three very different lives converged in North Brookfield, Mass.: song-and-dance man George M. Cohan; Philadelphia Athletics manager...
George Preston Marshall brought professional football to Boston in 1931 with a team known as the Boston Redskins — and which won...