St. Louis, Missouri. Train station. August 29th, 1925. Saturday morning. Babe Ruth has been drinking all night, gambling, no sleep. He missed the 6:00 a.m. train. The team went to...
Hollis Crane died on April 7th, 1974 sitting at his kitchen table in Plat County, Nebraska with a cup of coffee in his hand and his boots still on. Heart...
In the summer of 1978, a 27-year-old man named Nolan Briggs walked into the Saline County Savings Bank in Wilbur, Nebraska, carrying a Manila envelope and the quietest kind of...
Washington DC, Griffith Stadium. Cold spring afternoon 1924. Walter Johnson stands on the mound. Baseball’s fastest pitcher. 4 and 17 wins, 3509 strikeouts. For 20 years, nobody has challenged him....
There’s a moment every man remembers. Not the big ones, not the weddings or the funerals or the births, the small ones, the ones that burn. For Clyde Mlin, that...
New York City private athletic club. Hot summer evening, 1923. Babe Ruth is working weights. Heavyweight champion walks in. 240 lbs of pure muscle, 15 fights, 15 knockouts. He looks...
December 19th, 1944. Across three combat theaters spanning 6 million square miles, American machine gunners filed 47,000 afteraction reports. The numbers inside those reports would shatter 60 years of military...
On the morning of November 14th, 1971, in a one bay repair shop on Route 12 outside of Coredan, Indiana, a man named Hank Jessup leaned over a cracked engine...
August 7th, 1942. Guadal Canal’s jungle floor trembled under the boots of the first Marine wave hitting Lunga Point. Through the humid dawn air, Imperial Japanese Army defenders prepared for...
In the spring of 1981, in a county extension office in Buchanan County, Iowa, a soil map hung on the wall behind the agents desk. Every farmer in the county...