Lee Lowenfish

The above phrase comes from the epilogue to Warren Corbett’s absorbing and fluently written new biography of baseball man Paul Richards, THE WIZARD OF WAXAHACHIE (Southern Methodist University Press). It refers to the essence of sports, the ongoing never-ending struggle to find out who is best.
Corbett’s book ends with a lovely quote from Richards about baseball: “It starts over every spring, with you or without you.”  Read More 

I have always loved the Eubie Blake/Noble Sissle classic song “Memories of You” with its lyric about “a rosary of tears.” On Sunday night November 22, there were some tears yet happily more peals of laughter when the jazz drummer Eddie Locke was memorialized at St. Peter’s Church in the Citicorp Center on  Read More