All posts tagged "sports"
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14.4K4Arts and LeisureIn 1895, William Morgan Invents Mintonette
Mintonette, the game eventually called volleyball, was the brainchild of a man who happened to be friends with the man who invented...
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50.6K39ConnecticutThe Little Canadas of New England
Dozens of Little Canadas have contributed a significant but often ignored part of the character and history of New England since the...
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6.7K1Arts and LeisureWe Wuz Robbed, or How Jack Sharkey Boxed His Way to a Catchphrase
Jack Sharkey not only won the world heavyweight championship but was responsible for the classic sports expression: We wuz robbed. Sharkey,...
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7.8K1Arts and LeisureLouis Sockalexis, The Indian Athlete With the Tragic Flaw
Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a...
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13.0K21ConnecticutHow the Italian Immigrants Came to New England
Italian immigrants put their stamp on New England as indelibly as any Puritan. New England, in fact, is the most Italian region...
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7.7K1Arts and LeisureEleonora Sears, Blueblood Bad Girl on the Tennis Courts
Eleonora Sears pioneered women’s sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
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4502Arts and LeisureCornelia Fly Rod Crosby, The First Maine Guide
Cornelia Fly Rod Crosby accomplished what legions of outdoor sportsmen can only dream of, and she did it in the 1890s: She...
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Seabiscuit Takes His First Step to Fame at Suffolk Downs
Seabiscuit, the knock-kneed little horse with the big heart, met the man who made him a champion at Suffolk Downs Race Course...
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11.6K3Arts and LeisureMajor Taylor, World-Famous Black Athlete in 1899, Dies in Obscurity in 1932
Fifty years before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, Major Taylor conquered bicycle racing despite death threats and deliberate injury. At the...
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6.4K2Arts and LeisureDancer’s Image, the NH Horse that Won and Lost the Kentucky Derby
The New Hampshire thoroughbred Dancer’s Image won, then lost, the Kentucky Derby in 1968 because his owner made a kind gesture to...
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