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Maybe Bud Selig should visit Brooklyn. In the very borough that baseball abandoned during the Eisenhower Administration, Major League Baseball's commissioner would be treated to a nostalgic version of the national pastime. He would see 200 kids lining up early outside a ball park for a $5 bleacher seat despite the hot, sticky Coney Island weather. If he traveled to Memphis, Tenn., he would see families hurrying past downtown landmarks like the Peabody Hotel to get a good seat at AutoZone Park. Outside Chicago, he would see Kane County Cougars players being swarmed by young fans. And in cities...
Part of the appeal of minor-league ball is nostalgia, and nowhere is that factor bigger than in Brooklyn, where pro baseball returned last year for the first time since the Dodgers blew town 45 years ago. The New York Mets moved one of their Single-A farm teams to Coney Island and built 7,500-seat Keyspan Park next to the boardwalk. Why go to Brooklyn to see apprentices when All-Stars are playing for the Mets and Yankees across town? "The girls like it here," says Betsy Baudillo of Brooklyn, who took her two young daughters...
...live rock 'n roll shows that blossomed around the country, Lewis would often tour with - and against - his formidable rivals Chuck Berry and Little Richard. In an Alan Freed extravaganza at the Brooklyn Paramount, both he and Berry demanded the closing spot. Freed chose Berry, for reasons of seniority. And again we consult the Gospel according to Tosches...
...Jerry Lee often said that pop music had produced only four supreme stylists: Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and himself. (Al Jolson??) On that incendiary night at the Brooklyn Paramount - March 28, 1958 - JLL could reasonably expect he might soon be the most popular of the four. "Breathless," his follow-up to "Great Balls of Fire," was chugging up the charts. His next single would be the theme song to a (minor) Hollywood film, "High School Confidential." And in May he would begin a headlining tour of Great Britain. A star was born. A star prevails...
...certain she would never work in industry and would never have children. Wrong and wrong again. In 1987 Naughton co-founded Advanced Tissue Sciences, where she developed the first temporary skin substitute based on human tissue, which has aided burn victims in North America, Europe and Africa. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born scientist, now 46 and the mother of three, is once again breaking ground. She became the first woman biotech entrepreneur to lead a major U.S. business school when the one at San Diego State named her its dean...