Cathy Rush, 60, is now a semi-retired grandmother with homes in Florida and Ventnor. Her unlikely role in the blossoming feminist movement of the early 1970s will be dramatized in Our Lady of Victory, a film currently in production in the Philadelphia area and scheduled to be released next year...
Trying to pack the life and times of Louis “Red” Klotz into one story is like trying to pack a basketball team into a clown car. Not impossible, but hard to sort...
Spring creeps slowly over the farmlands of Salem County, nudging the winter chill and awakening the daily chores and routines of rural life. It could not arrive soon enough for Leon “Goose” Goslin. But milking cows and shearing sheep were not the attraction for him...
Growing up in South Jersey in the early 1970s, rooting for Philadelphia sports teams, I often heard my father—a much longer-suffering fan—use a phrase to describe the futile efforts of our teams...
Sid
Mark
In a half-centry of queueing up Frank
Sinatra,
Camden native Sid Mark has done it his way.
It
started with a telephone call. Spelling the all-night DJ on Philadelphia radio station WHAT,
rookie broadcaster Sid Mark took the pulse of the audience. A
caller suggested a solid hour of Frank Sinatra recordings and
the substitute host complied. The phones lit up. As the Chairman
might have said, Ring-a-ding-ding.
Turn back the
clock—way, way back—to the summer of 1924. There,
on a dusty, bumpy baseball field at the corner of South Carolina
and Caspian Avenues in Atlantic City, you see a 40-year-old
man teaching baseball, encouraging the younger players, his
high-pitched voice rising above the chatter...
Skinny was
a fiercely ambitious and scrappy street kid who was
orphaned by his 14th birthday. In 1923, he opened a cigar store
with nothing but a second grade education and $40 he borrowed
from his uncle...
May
19, 1974. The Philadelphia Spectrum. Game 6. It’s
Flyers and Boston for Lord Stanley’s Cup. Bullies versus
Bruins. Orr and Espo versus Clark, Parent, and The Hammer...
What is it like
to be the best there is? To be regarded by your peers as the standard against which
all others are judged? To be viewed as a living legend? Willie
Mosconi knew...
They say the journey
of a thousand miles begins with one step. And to climb
a mountain, that first step is always up. The willingness to
continue to trudge upward despite pain, regardless of heartbreaks
and failure...
TARZAN
LIVES in a retirement community in southern California,
writes introspective poetry and plays touch football with
his grandchildren. Occasionally he still lets loose a terrific
jungle yell from an awards platform or banquet dais, just
to let everybody know a restless, untamed spirit resides
within that 70-year-old body...
It’s
not enough to call Bill Campbell
“The Voice” of a generation of Philadelphia sports
fans. He’s more like that college professor whose solid
presence at the front of the classroom is forever embedded
in your memory bank.
