During the past year I have written about baseball, basketball, boxing, football, and horse racing. Today I am writing about a real sport: Jerry Lewis. On September 4, 1972, I was at a Padres baseball …
November 15, 1973
Articles by Alan Pesin
I approach Jerry Lewis in Padres press box
Ken Norton enters the ring, followed by Muhammed Ali.
Roslyn Kind, Barbra Streisand's sister, sings the National Anthem. Afterwards, everyone sits down despite the sounding of ten bells for the late New York Post columnist Milton Gross and the late Joe Frazier manager Yank …
September 13, 1973
Lew Burdette – most exciting interview at Padres' Old-Timers' Day,
In the 1957 World Series, Lew Burdette pitched the Milwaukee Braves to victory over the New York Yankees with three complete game wins. At the 1973 San Diego Padres' Old-Timers' Day, he was the most …
July 26, 1973
There is only one Santa Claus it baseball, and his name is C.A. Smith.
C (for Creep) Arnholt Smith, who owns a bank, an airline, and a luxury hotel, among other things, has just sold his baseball team because he could not keep up the payments. In a deal …
June 7, 1973