Major League Baseball integrated in 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first black player in the league’s history.
It took the National Basketball Association three years longer to accept black players. But in 1950, three black players joined the NBA. One of them was Charles H. “Chuck” Cooper, who became the first black player drafted […]

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Here’s a nifty photo and description from the Nov. 14, 1933, New Era. And there’s more, so read on….”Go, Team!”

The Brubaker twins were the subject of a feature article in the Intelligencer Journal in 2002, when they got together to celebrate their 85th birthdays with their families. They said they still remembered some of their high school […]

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From the Dec. 14, 1933, New Era:

The cute little ad above caught my eye while I was scrolling through microfilm of newspapers from 1933.
I knew that the intersection of routes 272 and 772 in Brownstown is known as “Schaum’s Corner,” but I didn’t know the history of the name or the skating auditorium.
Thanks to some earlier digging […]

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On Friday, the Philadelphia Phillies will parade down Broad Street to celebrate their 2008 World Series Championship, sealed by Wednesday night’s 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in game 5.
For those of you old enough to feel nostalgic about the Phillies’ last World Championship, here are a couple of Associated Press photos from the team’s victory and parade in […]

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“Seeding” not a new idea
In the lead-up to the Olympics, there’s been a lot of discussion about China’s efforts to alter the weather in Beijing, seeking to “seed” clouds so that rain would wash away smog, and, conversely, trying to dissipate clouds, when desired, to keep rain from interfering with athletic competitions.
The effectiveness of such efforts remains a topic of […]

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