May 2014

The Jewish Baseball Catcher that Caught the Nazis by Surprise

The Jewish Baseball Catcher that Caught the Nazis by Surprise Courtesy of Robert Drynan(Author Unknown)   When baseball greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig went on tour in baseball-crazy Japan in 1934, some fans wondered why a third-string catcher named Moe Berg was included in the troupe. The answer was simple: Berg was an American

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Imprints – May 2014

Imprints By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarellowww.antoniorambles.comantonio.rambles@yahoo.com Italy’s Cinque Terre gateway   Call it luck, but in years of travel I’ve rarely experience an upended itinerary that didn’t have a silver lining, and my luck again held when heavy seas prevented our ship from docking at Portofino.  The alternate port was a placed called Porto

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