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Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images Tommy Lasorda is synonymous with the Dodgers, but his lifetime in blue might have become a career in brown. For about five weeks nearly 70 years ago, Lasorda spent a spring training with St. Louis. Heading into the 1953 season, Lasorda was 25 years old, and pitched in the Dodgers’ farm system for four years. The previous three years were with Triple-A Montreal, with Lasorda going 35-17 with a 3.35 ERA in 489 innings. But he couldn’t yet breakthrough to the majors on a team that won the most games in the National League over the previous three ...

FROM 1931 to 1934, the mammoth shape of Hull Number 534, the unnamed Cunard ocean-liner that was to have been the salvation of the River Clyde, loomed unfinished in the stocks over the John Brown Engineering Works in Clydebank. Construction was suspended on 10 December 1931, plunging thousands into unemployment and poverty in the weeks before Christmas. Looking over Dumbarton Road from the tenements opposite, the rust-red hull of the unfinished ship must have resembled the skeleton of some extinct behemoth, and workers – from the riveters and caulkers of the black squads to the engineer...

Baseball’s a game of memories, and a few geezers like me remember how exciting it was in 1954 when the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles.

Today is the 47th day of 2021. There are 318 days left in the year.

Today is the 47th day of 2021. There are 318 days left in the year.