Yeah, I thought that headline would capture some attention. But it’s true. I currently hold a card called a “donor’s lifetime pass,” which allows me free admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. I received it in 1985, just after I graduated from college. I was a creative writing…
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Donating to the Albany Museum of History and Art
I couldn’t believe that I had accumulated all this stuff over the years. Every time I went to a local sports contest, I would buy a game program. That’s a lot of programs, especially when I went to almost every Patroons game, River Rats contest, Albany-Colonie Yankees and Diamond Dogs matchup, etc., etc. I saved…
Read MoreMilton Horne and the Basketball Streakers
Milton Horne was a part of youth sports in the Capital Region for many decades. A four-year basketball starter at Philip Schuyler and a graduate in 1969, he later attended New Mexico and played in the NCAA Division I Final Four. He returned to Albany, and worked as a little league coach for the next…
Read MoreHow Albany Almost Got Minor League Baseball in the 1970’s
Everybody knows the Albany Senators baseball team folded in 1959 and the Albany-Colonie A’s (later the A-C Yankees) came to the area in 1983. This meant Albany went 24 years without minor league baseball – except for 1971, when some newspaper reporters, a beer distributor, a savvy minor league general manager, and a future Hall…
Read MoreRobert Ripley Arrives in Albany: Believe It Or Not!
It had all the pomp and circumstance of an arriving dignitary on a ship of state. On August 8, 1947, hundreds gathered at the Port of Albany, both on the shore and in the water. Yachts from the Albany Yacht Club escorted the honored vessel under the Dunn Memorial Bridge. A Navy LCVP, or “Higgins…
Read MoreThe Albany County Rail Trail: A New Use of Albany’s Railroad Past
They’re very familiar sights, especially if you live in the Delmar / Elsmere / Slingerlands area. Several railroad bridges from the old Delaware and Hudson Railroad, spanning a network of nine miles of rail track from Albany to Voorheesville. That stretch of rail line can no longer hold rail traffic; the bridges are just a…
Read MoreRetro 6 – WRGB’s online look at its past
Let’s face it. Of all the local television stations in the Capital District, none has a longer and more detailed history than WRGB. As a General Electric television station, it tested its broadcast capabilities as early as the 1920’s. It had scripted dramas and sporting matches as early as 1939. And it also created several…
Read MoreMay 30, 1929 – Opening Night at the Madison Theater
Of the dozens of movie palaces and theaters that populated the Capital District, from the beginning of silent film until the creation of shopping mall-based theaters, only three movie palaces have survived to today. The Spectrum on Delaware Avenue was once called the Delaware Theater, and is the oldest building that still shows films. The…
Read MoreYes, it is a Kaptain Kool and the Kongs AM Radio…
When I mentioned in a previous post that the only way I could get any sort of outside news during the 2008 blackout was through the power of a toy AM radio, I noted that it was a toy Kaptain Kool and the Kongs radio. One of my readers wanted more information on why I…
Read MoreRemembering the Mini-Boggan
Because of issues involving my family relocating from time to time, and the years I spent growing up involved relocating to different cities and staying with different relatives because my home life was just too toxic to survive, I attended twelve different educational institutions from kindergarten to high school. I think the joke goes that…
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