“No, a classic propeller beanie.” I hoped the pinwheel hat might have originated in Chicago. As a center for the American toy industry in the mid-20th century, the city is the birthplace of numerous ...
Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library DETROIT -- Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit ...
Robert Kapas was sitting in a local mall in Atlanta wearing his homemade fish hat, when a man named Leo (leo.the.introvert on social media) stopped to ask about it. Kapas doesn’t actively try to ...
library on Dec. 4, 1974. (Terrie Wendricks via AP) Chuck Hildebrandt of Chicago holds the book “Baseball’s Zaniest Stars” on Dec. 10, 2024, which was due back at the Warren, Mich., library on Dec. 4, ...