Ah, weekend professional wrestling. Fun stuff. When I was growing up, it aired at 11:00 a.m. or 12 noon on WRGB, most often on Saturday or Sunday. I started watching pro wrestling in the early 1970’s, when the brand of wrestling provided in upstate New York was the World Wide Wrestling Federation (what we know…
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The Tragedy of February 20, 1970
There are five children in this photograph, a still gleaned from a 1969 8mm home movie. I am the tallest, and am standing on the far left. My brother John Kennedy Miller, known at that time as “Jay,” stands next to me. My younger brother Allen Michael Miller is in the middle, and my sister…
Read MoreThe top New York Governor Scandals of all-time
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…
Read MoreTimes 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…
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