Lee Lowenfish

Against my better judgment I attended one of the three Oriole-Yankee games at Yankee Stadium in early May. Predictably, despite being fresh from a three-game sweep over the Red Sox at home, Baltimore reverted to form and played Washington Generals to the Yankees’ Harlem Globetrotters as they have been doing with numbing regularity in  Read More 

On Sunday afternoon April 18 I rode the Long Island Railroad out to Babylon to attend the ceremonies honoring the Cuban Giants, who were very likely the first professional “pay for play” African-American baseball team. In the mid-1880s while ostensibly serving as waiters at the luxury Argyle Hotel this team of African-Americans represented the  Read More