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Arizona: Mr D’z Route 66 Diner. Kingman Stop into this retro diner (a popular landmark on Route 66) to enjoy homemade root beer floats and juicy burgers amidst lovely '50s decor and memorabilia ...
Rt. 66 passed right through Valentine, AZ, which made it a bustling town. Today there is little left, but one of the most intersting things is this old diner, now closed. These diners were built in Michigan and shipped to the buyer's site. Many of them set along the Mother Road, but this is one of the few which remain.
January 20 – Leslie O'Connor, 76, lawyer and baseball executive; assistant to Commissioners of Baseball K. M. Landis (1921–1944) and Happy Chandler (1945); in between, acting commissioner as chairman of the MLB Advisory Council (1944–1945); subsequently general manager of Chicago White Sox (1945–1948) and president of Pacific Coast ...
The first formal baseball league outside of the United States and Canada was founded in 1878 in Cuba, which maintains a rich baseball tradition and whose national team has been one of the world's strongest since international play began in the late 1930s (all organized baseball in the country has officially been amateur since the Cuban Revolution).
The game was played in front of just 413 fans in Yankee Stadium I, the smallest crowd in the history of any version of Yankee Stadium and the fifth-smallest crowd in Major League Baseball history. Four days after this game was played (September 26, 1966), broadcast pioneer Red Barber was told that his contract would not be renewed by then ...
The title of Cashman’s 1981 creation, “Talkin’ Baseball,” became a part of the sport’s lexicon. Its words always come back to three men: Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and the Duke Snider.
During six undistinguished seasons in the major leagues, Bob Uecker never played an inning for the Milwaukee Brewers. But during his more than half-century as the team's play-by-play announcer, he ...
Walter Lanier "Red" Barber (February 17, 1908 – October 22, 1992) was an American sports announcer and author. Nicknamed "The Ol' Redhead", he was primarily identified with broadcasts of Major League Baseball, calling play-by-play across four decades with the Cincinnati Reds (1934–1938), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–1953), and New York Yankees (1954–1966).