Frederic Frommer
Writer at The Washington Post
Writer @washingtonpost and other natl pubs. Sports & politics historian. Author of book on Nats history. Alum @AP @CNN. Also follow me @ffrommer.bsky.social
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3 weeks ago |
contrarian.substack.com | Frederic Frommer
By Frederic J. FrommerWhen the Golden State Warriors met the Washington Bullets in the 1975 National Basketball Association Finals, it marked the first time two Black coaches went head-to-head in a championship in American professional sports history. That series, 50 years ago last month, also offered a snapshot in how far the NBA had come in providing opportunities to Black coaches – and how far Major League Baseball and the National Football League lagged in this area.
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3 weeks ago |
momentmag.com | Frederic Frommer
It’s a question most Jews can relate to: Is that athlete/actor/rock star Jewish? If the answer is yes, it’s hard to suppress a little pride.
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states.aarp.org | Frederic Frommer
With an affordable housing shortage of about 100,000 units in Minnesota, policymakers and others are looking for ways to increase the state’s housing stock — and to make it more accessible for older adults. “We don’t have enough supply,” says Carrie Henning-Smith, co-director of the Rural Health Research Center at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
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1 month ago |
contrarian.substack.com | Frederic Frommer
By Frederic J. FrommerFormer Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who died this month at age 85, so angered conservatives with a liberal track record despite being nominated by a Republican president that he inspired the rallying cry “No more Souters!”But Souter, nominated to the court by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, is just one of several Supreme Court justices who vexed Republican presidents by going their own way, most famously Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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thedispatch.com | Frederic Frommer
New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has firmly informed President Donald Trump, in the polite Canadian way, that his country is not for sale. If only someone had made that declaration on behalf of Canada’s original Major League Baseball team, the Montreal Expos. Twenty years before Trump floated the idea of Canada becoming America’s 51st state, the Expos became America’s 29th baseball team, moving to Washington, D.C., to become the Nationals in 2005.
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In 1988, future Senator Al Franken played a family game on SNL, writing a skit called “Jew, Not a Jew,” where gentile contestants guessed if their favorite stars were part of the tribe. But would the sketch, which caused tension with censors at the time, fly in today’s more https://t.co/mlcUalGNtM
RT @ffrommer: I wrote this @PostSports story in 2023 when the Knicks’ championship drought hit a half-century. Sadly it is now 52 years… @N…
I wrote this @PostSports story in 2023 when the Knicks’ championship drought hit a half-century. Sadly it is now 52 years… @NBA_NewYork @jaconi The Knicks were dazzling champs in the 1970s. They haven’t won since. https://t.co/qbk7VPkv6D
