Hugo Bezdek Led Three Teams to Rose Bowl, Managed a Major League Baseball Club, & Coached in the NFL
By Mark Schipper In the misty twilight that spread quickly after a blazing sun had set behind a shoulder of mountain near the end of the...
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Mark Schipper
Mar 28, 2021
Haunted by an Error in First 'Game of the Century,' a Michigan Wolverines' Star Took His Own Life
By Mark Schipper Alone in a hotel a continent away from his estranged wife and three children, tortured by the belief he wore a scarlet...
Mark Schipper
Feb 11, 2021
The Ballad of Walter Eckersall and the Snake Born Eating its Tail
By Mark Schipper There’s no shattered visage on the ground next to Walter Eckersall’s grave marker at Oak Woods cemetery, but the lone...
Mark Schipper
Feb 1, 2021
Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Where Big Ten Conference was Founded, Has Closed
By Mark Schipper A strange sort of desolation has settled over the legendary Palmer House in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop, the...
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