Just two months ago, the Los Angeles Lakers appeared to be a sinking ship. The defense was completely disorganized, the on-court chemistry was alarmingly stiff, and the highly anticipated connection...
In the fiercely competitive realm of professional basketball, psychological warfare is just as crucial as physical dominance. Few players in the history of the sport understood this better than Kevin...
In the high-stakes realm of professional basketball, unwritten rules of locker room loyalty often force players to bite their tongues and protect their own. But every once in a while,...
There is a letter in the Kansas State Historical Society that most researchers walk past without opening. It was written in October of 1901 by a school teacher named Edna...
In 1911, a man named Aurelio Fen finished the most dangerous book ever drawn by hand. It was not a book about war. It was not a manifesto. It was...
In 1851, a fire destroyed more recorded knowledge than any event since the Library of Alexandria. Most people have never heard of it. The Smithsonian Institution lost 35,000 artifacts. The...
Ernie Shore sat in the stands wearing street clothes watching his former teammate. Babe Ruth was on the field playing for the Yankees. Now Ernie had moved on too. Different...
Helen Ruth lived alone. Her husband Babe had left her. He was building a life in New York with another woman, but Helen refused to divorce him. Her religious faith...
George Ruth Senior had sent his son away when the boy was seven years old. Sent him to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory, a place for delinquents,...
New York, winter 1923. Private meeting, expensive restaurant, Manhattan, table in, corner, away from, others, privacy, complete privacy. Three men sitting, talking quietly. Seriously, two men wearing expensive suits, businessmen,...