Want to create the ideal spy character? You couldn't do much better than Moe Berg, the most enigmatic spy ever to don a trench coat. Or a baseball uniform.
Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I liked the days when I could watch a sporting event and the only numbers I had to keep track of were on the scoreboard or the players' backs. How about you?
During the opening ceremonies of the 1964 Summer Games, 8,000 pigeons were released into the sky. Surely at least one member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) breathed a sigh of relief that Léon de Lunden was not there to create what certainly would have been a public relations nightmare.
In 1938, the people who turned Better Crocker into a household name hoped to do the same with Helen Dettweiler by hiring her as radio's first woman baseball announcer.
My dad's professional basketball career with Philadelphia ended when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Should I have had to pay the price for his fame?