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NEW YORK, NEW YORK Part 12 – The Yanks, The Giants and The Brooklyn Dodgers
When it was determined that essays would become a permanent fixture in my life, it was apparent that my long term love affair with baseball would result in a piece about what used to be called, “America’s Pastime.” And so this is a baseball story. No politicians, no preachers, no cats or pets, just baseball.…
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WE HAVE A BOY
[Editor’s note: The NY NY series will end with part 12 tomorrow. It’s even longer than the Moscow one, and I’m a little pressed for time tonight, so we’re doing this instead and switching it later] I can’t ever remember having delusions of grandeur. If I had, my mother or my siblings – all older…
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK PART 11 – MOSCOW, MANHATTAN AND THE FBI
Readers of these essays may recall a story I wrote about Howard Pappert, Dave Dietz and myself setting out to visit some countries behind what Winston Churchill called “The Iron Curtain.” Visiting communist countries in the 1970’s and 1980’s was not a pleasant task for those of us at AT&T who had the responsibility for…