“We’ll Lick This Someday” But Will Someday Ever Come: Jackie Robinson, Branch...
John Jorgensen, Pee Wee Reese, Ed Stanky and Jackie Robinson on opening day 1947 Friends of Padre Steve’s World. Pitchers and catchers reported to training camps in Florida and Arizona today and will...
View Article”He Led America by Example” Jackie Robinson’s Debut, 72 Years Later
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Yesterday was the day that Major League Baseball commemorated the day that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and along with future Civil...
View ArticleMyths and Legends: Abner Doubleday, Baseball, and Gettysburg
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Tonight, two of my favorite topics in one. The Battle Of Gettysburg and baseball. The tie between them is the myth of Abner Doubleday and the creation of baseball,...
View ArticleThe Astros Sign Stealing Scandal and the Importance of Baseball to American Life
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Walt Whitman wrote: I see great things in baseball. It’s our game — the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger...
View ArticleIf Liberty Dies in Our Hearts, no Constitution Law or Court Can Save It: A...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have been contemplating the ideas of liberty and freedom this week. I intentionally did not watch the President’s speech at Mount Rushmore for after what he did at...
View ArticleMyths and Reality: Abner Doubleday at Gettysburg and the Myth of his Creation...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Tonight, I am trying to post something here and get back to work of my book. This is a section of one of my draft Gettysburg books, which manages to combine two of my...
View ArticleThe Road to Trump Began Here: Jackie Robinson and the 1964 GOP Convention
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Pardon the interruption, but I started a new article last night but was too tired to complete. I guess I will mull it over more and get around to posting it when I am...
View ArticleTrump’s Virtual Nuremberg
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, On March 5th 1933 the Nazi Party secured enough seats in the German Reichstag to form a coalition government with the German People’s Nationalist Party (DVNP). The...
View ArticleMcCarthy to Cohn to Trump and Judgment at Nuremberg: Will You Make Your Life...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have written about the classic film Judgment at Nuremberg many times. I am doing it again because I have been doing a lot of reading about some of the other war...
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Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I return again to the Nuremberg Trials and the opening statement of the American Chief Prosecutor, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. I first wrote this in the wake...
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