New Yorker

Jesse Owens in London after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics.

The Old Cincinnati Library before being demolished, 1874-1955

San Francisco 50s Fred Lyon

The Ansonia, a grand old Beaux-Arts apartment building on 73rd-74th Streets and Broadway, NYC.

"It sounded like somebody firing a pistol in a canyon...pow, pow, pow. That was the sound of the fastball popping Rube's mitt in that empty ballpark. We all came in to watch this kid." Tommy Lasorda, on Koufax's first tryout with the Dodgers, as witnessed by Lasorda and several other Dodger pitchers, who were jogging in the outfield at the time. "To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do." Sandy Koufax as a nineteen-year-old rookie along with pitching coach Joe Becker, in the outfield at Ebbets Field in 1955. Sandy Koufax is the youngest player ever to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. "The Left Arm of God!!"

"Anything new has to establish itself and gain its own credentials. When radio came along and began to broadcast some baseball games, some of the entrenched conservative owners said: "Wait a minute. Why give away something that you're trying to sell for your living, to try and keep your enterprise afloat?" And especially on days of threatening weather when people would say: "Well, it looks like it may rain. I'll just listen to the radio. I won't go." They did not realize at the time the beneficial effect of radio, that it would be making families of fans. And so it got so bad that after the season of 1933, baseball considered banning all radio play-by-play. And then they compromised and said, "Well, we'll leave it up to individual teams." And the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers then in New York went into a five-year anti-radio ban and would allow no broadcast of any of their home games, not even a Western Union re-creation. Owner Larry MacPhail broke that with his broadcasting in Brooklyn in 1939 and from that time on, there's been no question. Radio, television, more fans, more money." 'Red' Barber regarding the early broadcasting of baseball games. "The Radio Antennae" Robert C. Kauffmann, 1925. "The only game you can see on the radio".

Friendship by Annick Gérardin, c.1930 Paris