Fred Frommer

50 years ago, Howard Cosell interviewed John Lennon on #MondayNightFootball - then made a longshot bid to have the Beatle reunite on Cosell's short-lived TV variety show. My story today ... @dcsportsbog @coachbuckethead @rickklein @JeremySchaap wapo.st/3ZtYolI

My story this morning atop @guardian homepage, about then-Prince Charles's 1970 visit to Washington, when he was befuddled by a baseball game. As his host David Eisenhower recalled, "He didn't enjoy it that much." @rickklein @coachbuckethead @dick_nixon theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

As baseball adjusts to the new ABS system, @ffrommer reminds us that the search for the perfect robot umpire goes back nearly a century. Great history here. contrariannews.org/p/inventors-ha…

Inventors Have Looked to Perfect ‘Robot Umpires’ for Better Part of a Century, as this vintage NYT headline illustrates. My story today ... @rickklein @coachbuckethead @JeremySchaap open.substack.com/pub/contrarian…

#OTD 50 Years Ago, the completely renovated Yankee Stadium reopened in the Bronx, costing a nearly-broke NYC $100 million. My story ... @coachbuckethead @crmarx1 tinyurl.com/2zexezve

Great chatting with @TheCurrentCBC this week about baseball's new ABS system, aka "Robot umps." @coachbuckethead cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Great chatting with @RyanChandlerTV on @HallieOnNBC about the looming baseball lockout next year. But don't let '27 worries spoil this year's Opening Day! @HallieJackson @SuzGamboa @KDilanianMSNOW @ScarboroughNow youtube.com/watch?v=-HaJGv…

60 years ago Texas Western became the first team with an all-Black starting lineup to win the NCAA Title. My story ... @LenElmore @JeremySchaap @rickklein @coachbuckethead contrariannews.org/p/sixty-yeas-a…

I wrote about Jackie Robinson's debut with the Dodgers' top minor league team-80 years ago-on his way to breaking the color barrier in 1947: contrarian.substack.com/p/jackie-robin…. And I'll be talking about his legacy at a @smithsonian Zoom tonight: tinyurl.com/4abcy6me @coachbuckethead

I'll be giving a Smithsonian virtual talk Thursday with my pal Phil Hochberg on the career of Jackie Robinson, including his minor league season with the Montreal Royals, 80 years ago this spring. Hope you can tune in! smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/prog…

Before Bad Bunny, there was Up With People, the first #SuperBowl halftime musical act after a decade of marching bands. Sample cheesy lyrics, about the US bicentennial: “200 Years and just a baby … Someday, she’s going to be quite a lady.” My story: contrarian.substack.com/p/50-years-ago…

With pitchers and catchers reporting next week, take a look at a classic cartoon, "Baseball Bugs," which came out 80 years ago and gave us the "Bugs Bunny changeup." My takeout today ... @coachbuckethead @rickklein @JeremySchaap contrarian.substack.com/p/baseball-bug…

I mean. This is all I have been talking about (outside of work hours) for the last month. There is a LOT of money in our town, and giant mobs of people who want to read about how things work here, and (as of today) many, many brilliant and unemployed journalists. Do it. Someone.

Mike Brady bought their house with the money he made from inventing Zoom.

Lessons From Nixon on the Use of American Power: Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. showed force to advance interests, not take over land | Frederic J. Frommer thedispatch.com/article/nixon-…

Check out my story this morning for some surprising comments by Richard Nixon 55 years ago on the use of power to acquire territory @dick_nixon @coachbuckethead @jonkarl

#OTD 65 years ago, JFK inspired a new generation with his inaugural speech. Columnist James Reston called it "a revolutionary document ... not only eloquent, but moralistic and even religious." My story ... @rickklein @coachbuckethead @JFKLibraryFdn contrarian.substack.com/p/65-years-ago…

My look back at FDR's decision to seek a third term, which earned him scorn across the political spectrum, including from @nytimes, which assailed "the doctrine of one man’s indispensability" in an editorial. @DavidMarkDC @rickklein @coachbuckethead washingtonexaminer.com/premium/439911…

And here’s my essay about the effort and what it’s meant for me - with thanks to ⁦@MurphyToTheHall⁩ team and so many friends made along the way! ⁦@DaleMurphy3⁩ ⁦@Nightline⁩ abcnews.go.com/Sports/dale-mu…

@ffrommer great, big picture take on this year’s MLB MVPs -Ohtani and Judge @Dodgers @Yankees open.substack.com/pub/contrarian…

100 years ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK in a baseball game in Kansas, when the white supremacist group was at the height of its popularity in the United States. My story ... @JeremySchaap @coachbuckethead contrarian.substack.com/p/100-years-ag…