Sublime

He knew his place, but he became a big part of the culture there, because he made sure things were fair and honest. He was a man of his word and expected the same of others.

Up went Rudi, unsteady after too much whisky and coke. ‘We are the future, I am the future, this man,’ he said, grasping the minister, whose name he did not know but whose body fat percentage showed importance, ‘is the future, aren’t you?’ He started jabbing the man’s stomach, and kept repeating, ‘Aren’t you, aren’t you?’ Then he jumped off the sta

David Falkner is the author of several highly acclaimed books on sports including Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball, The Last Yankee, and Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson from Baseball to Birmingham.

Nobody can bullshit him,” said Hargrove in 2017. “Not the management, not the union, not the workers.” Harrison knew their jobs. That gave him credibility in the field, but it also created angst among employees.

everyone around the Saint Paul levees came to know “Jim” Hill, his name usually rendered as one word, “Jimhill,” a man who always seemed up on anything and everything that went on.

In early 1942 he opened an after-hours dive bar called Club Nosotros off the corner of Avenida Eduardo Conde and Calle Martino. It was right across the street from the Villa Palmeras Cemetery and, more importantly, just half a mile away from Camp Las Casas.

At the behest of his wife, Ann, he hired a designer to create www.delharris.com, then charged visitors $20 for a one-year membership that included (as written on the home page) “these great benefits”: an autographed photograph, an “official” Del’s Club membership card, a quarterly newsletter, and a birthday card. Fewer than 100 people subscribed.