MLB's oldest living player celebrates 100th birthday Major League Baseball’s oldest living player turned 100 years old. Art Schallock, a left-hander who pitched in 58 games with the Yankees and Orioles over a five-year career in the 1950s, celebrated ... 04/27/2024 - 8:07 am | View Link
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’ Like millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson was a republican. That changed when the GOP opposed voting rights for Blacks. 04/26/2024 - 11:12 pm | View Link
MLB celebrates Jackie Robinson Day: Honoring the legacy of the barrier-breaking baseball icon SEATTLE - Every year on April 15, Major League Baseball spends the entire day celebrating the life of Jackie Robinson, the player who broke through baseball's color barrier and made his debut in ... 04/15/2024 - 11:18 am | View Link
MLB’s few Black players left should be a warning about the war on DEI As Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson and his pioneering contributions to the game, I can’t help but think about the fact that the league is reporting a historically low number of ... 04/15/2024 - 11:18 am | View Link
MLB Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson Day April 15 is a significant day in baseball as MLB celebrates Jackie Robinson Day. Today marks 77 years after Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break MLB’s color barrier. 04/15/2024 - 8:33 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.