Author: John C. Skipper

Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Ca...

The presidential election of 1912 was the only one whose candidates included an incumbent president, a former president and a future president. ...

Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was a staunch conservative more interested in advancing the conservative cause than running for president. A Draft ...

Frank Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of the 20th century. He was Rookie of the Year for the Cincinnati Reds in 1956, won the Tri...

Earl Weaver put his best defensive players on the field early in the game rather than make late-inning defensive replacements, and he didn't lik...