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1 week ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Michael Olesker
On the evening of Jan. 18, 2013, Earl Weaver had dinner aboard the Celebrity Silhouette cruise ship for the “Original Baltimore Baseball Cruise,” comforted to have a bunch of his old ballplayers with him. They were there to reminisce, make a little extra cash and socialize with fans. Also, as it turned out, he was there to bid farewell. Rising from the dinner table, Weaver told his old lefty pitching ace Scott McGregor he didn’t feel well and was heading for bed.
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1 week ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Michael Olesker
Every minority adds the richest, juiciest pieces of its tribal culture to the great American mix. That’s what keeps this country so fresh and alive. And if you don’t believe that, you’re in the wrong place, pal. Once in a while, we get individuals who add more than a sliver to the nation’s vitality.
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2 weeks ago | 
baltimorepostexaminer.com | Michael Olesker
BALTIMORE – Ten years since the Freddie Gray riots, there’s a voice in my head that has never gone away. The voice is CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, as he gazed from a safe studio in Washington at the fire and the fury outside a pharmacy in West Baltimore. “Have you ever seen anything like this?” Blitzer cried repeatedly. “Have you ever seen anything like this?”Well, yes. At the time of the Freddie Gray riots, Blitzer was 67 years old. He must have been the only one his age who never heard of 1968.
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2 weeks ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Michael Olesker
Get over it, all of you who took to the streets over the weekend full of anger and anxiety and couldn’t believe Donald Trump simultaneously took to the golf course full of sheer obliviousness. The president of the United States’ biggest weekend anxiety was sinking a six-foot putt — and yet, some of us are still surprised at his callousness and spit-in-the-eye indifference toward millions of Americans?
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4 weeks ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Michael Olesker
In a headline across the front page of its Business section to get some serious attention, the Baltimore Sun announces new devotion to the business of being an actual newspaper. The headline on Friday, Mar.
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1 month ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Michael Olesker
When the clock ran out on Henry “Skip” Feldman the other day, he still had dreams of telling his life story to the whole wide world. He was 88. The world had largely forgotten him by then, but Skip still had stories to tell. In his day, just think of the people who leaned on him, and the noise they created, and the thrills they gave a nervous Baltimore when the city needed it the most.
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1 month ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Michael Olesker
In its ongoing insensitivity and sheer idiocy, the Trump administration has now reached into the grave where Baltimore’s Jacob Beser rests after flying two of the most consequential bombing runs of World War II. Beser is the only man who flew both atomic missions over Japan that effectively ended the war. On the first run over Hiroshima, the plane was named the Enola Gay.
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1 month ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Michael Olesker
Send up a cheer for sportscaster Tom Davis, who joins outfielders Adam Jones and Joe Orsulak as the newest inductees into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame. Jones played here for a full decade and helped turn the franchise from shameful loser into a five-year stretch where the O’s had the best won-loss record in baseball. He could hit and field, and brought a sense of pie-in-the-face joy to the game. He was, for many, the face of the franchise as it rose from the grave.
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1 month ago | 
baltimorepostexaminer.com | Michael Olesker
Baltimore – Nearly overlooked in the bombast of President Donald Trump’s address to the U.S. Congress the other night was a gesture of sheer contempt for all those Americans who used to believe in the U.S. judicial system but lost it as Trump maneuvered through it over the past four years.
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1 month ago | 
jmoreliving.com | Michael Olesker
The bullying of defenseless Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House last Friday should live in television infamy. It gave us our most vivid real-time look at Donald Trump and J.D. Vance at their cruelest. The Russian invasion three years ago has now taken more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilian lives, wounded nearly 28,000 more, killed close to 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers and wounded more than 100,000 others.
