Monday, November 2, 2015

How 'the dumbest manager in baseball' got to the World Series via Vancouver

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Ned Yost with Vancouver Canadians in 1979. Royals manager Ned Yost and two of his coaches learned baseball while playing in Vancouver...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Gordon Quan had to fight to get the vote. He doesn't want you to waste yours.

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Gordon Quan in uniform in London in 1945. By Tom Hawthorn Boulevard Magazine October, 2015 Late on the evening of October 19, a wor...
Friday, October 2, 2015

Frances Wasserlein (1946-2015), irrepressible feminist activist

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By Tom Hawthorn Special to The Globe and Mail September 30, 2015 In her journey from secretary to front-line activist, Frances Wasser...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Yogi Berra on ice

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Yogi Berra, a left-handed shot, tries to stick-handle the puck past St. Louis Flyers goalie Don (Mouse) MacDonald in a 1948 scrimmage. ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

'Old Rockpile' will become just that

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War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo By Tom Hawthorn The Globe and Mail July 13, 1987 BUFFALO, N.Y. —  Cy Williams sat in ...
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Coley Hall (1906-2002), brought pugnacious presence to West Coast hockey and baseball

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CVA 1184-377 Coley Hall managed the St. Regis Hotel team in Vancouver's senior baseball league. By Tom Hawthorn The Globe and Mail ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Stoneman's second no-hitter a bright ending to a dismal season

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This article was originally written for a Society for American Baseball Research book on significant games in Montreal Expos history....