I’m telling you… I can’t wait for the big bombshell the New York Times plans to drop on Governor David Paterson. I’ve heard every sort of rumor about what the big bombshell will be – does the Governor have another woman on the side, is he and his wife into “the lifestyle,” is this all…
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Times Union snubs the Albany Patroons once again
I always wondered if our fair newspaper has something against the legendary minor league basketball team. For years, as an Albany Patroons fan, I used to grimace when reading team coverage in the TU – there would be articles about how the Patroons were going to move the franchise to another city, how the team…
Read MoreRemembering “Black Through the Years”
On this holiday in which we pay tribute to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., today I pay tribute to a very special high school play. See, the year before I arrived at Street Academy, the students in that school’s history classes wrote a series of vignettes on the history of African-American…
Read MoreLifetime free admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame
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…
Read MoreDonating 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…
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