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Sports, Cars & Other Pastimes
Pop culture is as American as apple pie. Enjoy the stories behind favorite hobbies, sports, and collectibles.
America’s Green Cathedrals–The Ballparks
This month we will take a quick peek at some historic facts about four baseball parks—Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, and Dodger Stadium. To kick off this feature, here are a few fun facts about ball fields in general:
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Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
African American Performer who had to go to Europe to be Appreciated She was born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother was a washerwoman and
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Libby Riddles (1956- )
American dogsledder and first woman to win the Iditarod, 1985
The Iditarod is a grueling 1152-mile trans-Alaska dogsled race in which male mushers dominated until 1985 when Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the annual race.
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