I want to give you a little update here, guys.
Yesterday morning, one of my closest friends, Robert Arnold, passed away. This is one of those deals that seems unreal and I feel like it hasn’t sunk in yet. If you’ve been following along since the early days of this blog, you will recognize that Robert [...]

Bert Shepard, the only player to appear in a major league game with an artificial leg, died of natural causes over the weekend. He was 12 days short of his 88th birthday.
Shepard was a fighter pilot during WWII. His Lockheed P-38J Lightning was shot down near Ludwigslust, east of Hamburg on May, 21 1944.
First Lieutenant [...]

To me, one thing really stands out in the AP piece reporting the death of Bo Diddley.
“I don’t like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it,” he said. “I don’t have any idols I copied after.”
“They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that [...]