Patrick Kennedy

Jan 12, 2025 | canadianbaseballnetwork.com | Patrick Kennedy

January 12, 2024By Patrick KennedyCanadian Baseball NetworkYears ago while quenching his thirst at some forgotten oasis in Cleveland, Ohio, Paul Hoynes, veteran “beat writer” for that city's Guardians major-league baseball team, noticed an intriguing photograph on the wall. The image depicted eight tuxedo-clad men who sat at the head table of the “1928 Champions of Sport Banquet” in New York City.

Dec 8, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Whoopi Goldberg |Paul Alexander |David Greenberg |Patrick Kennedy

Every year the editors at AudioFile magazine spend a lot of time putting together their best-of-the-year list of recommended audiobooks, picking out titles they regard as exceptional. Below you’ll find their choices of the best audiobooks of 2024 in the biography and memoir category. Memoirs can be particularly rewarding to listen to as audiobooks, as often it’s the author narrating the story of their own life.

Nov 2, 2024 | canadianbaseballnetwork.com | Patrick Kennedy

Richardson delivered the homily at Mantle’s 1995 funeral, as he’d done for 15 other Yankees including Roger Maris a decade earlier. “Sadly, Tony Kubek and I are the only ones left out of the 25 players on our original Yankee team,” he said of his 89-year-old close pal with whom he roomed throughout his pro career. For 10 seasons that Kubek-Richardson keystone that anchored the New York’s middle infield is still widely regarded as being the slickest double-play duo in Yankees history.

Oct 21, 2024 | canadianbaseballnetwork.com | Patrick Kennedy

October 21, 2024By Patrick KennedyCanadian Baseball NetworkWhen my wife Lorraine and I deposited our youngest child at Brock University last month, we entered the unknown – an unpredictable, inescapable trek into uncharted territory that all parents take sooner or later. If you think I'm talking about the nerve-fraying freeway out of St. Catharines and into and out of the nail-biting traffic in the GTA corridor, good guess but no.

Oct 8, 2024 | canadianbaseballnetwork.com | Patrick Kennedy

On their mother's side of the family was Arthur Pfander. “Uncle Art,” who came to head the Public Relations department at Detroit Edison, had a solid “in” with the great Detroit Red Wings team of the late 1940s and '50s. That explains, in part at least, the presence in Huddleston's flat of the late Hockey Hall of Fame netminder Terry Sawchuk's tan leather goalie pads.