Robert Johnson had been dead for forty-eight years when the Hall of Fame put him in its founding class of 1986 – not through the Performer wing, but by way of a separate honor... Read More →
Ask who was in the first class of the Rock Hall and most people will hand you ten names: Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and the rest of the founding performers. The ten everyone... Read More →
Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is something that happens to you whether you want it or not. There is no application and nothing to sign. A nominating committee puts your... Read More →
George Washington kept hounds with names like Sweetlips, Tipsy, Drunkard, and Vulcan, bred them with the patient obsession of a man building something permanent, and is credited by the American Kennel Club with helping... Read More →
In January 1924, a state historian named Doane Robinson stood before the Black and Yellow Trail Association, a highway-booster group, and proposed carving giant figures into the Black Hills. He was thinking of tourists... Read More →
Every unassisted triple play in MLB history is properly documented by definitive sources, except for the very first one. On May 8, 1878, the Providence Grays’ center fielder Paul Hines charged a sinking line... Read More →
In the summer of 1946, a group of men who owned or operated some of the largest arenas in North America gathered in New York and agreed to start a basketball league. Most of... Read More →
Randy Johnson stood six feet ten inches tall and threw left-handed, which is roughly the baseball equivalent of being struck by lightning that has had a moment to aim. From a release point that... Read More →
The standard answer is four. Ask a knowledgeable basketball fan to name Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame teammates and you will hear Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Toni Kukoč, and Robert Parish. That is the... Read More →
Over twenty seasons in Los Angeles, Kobe Bryant shared the floor with more than a hundred and thirty teammates. Nine of them are now in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, enshrined as... Read More →
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