The airwaves have been flooded with all the hysteria of the otherworldly accomplishments of Shohei Ohtani, and rightly so. He is indeed a “unicorn”, a unique baseball player who has taken MLB by storm since coming from Japan to the US. To be able to hit and pitch with such excellence is almost un.
In the 1970s I wrote a children’s book titled “The Magic of J.B.,” published by Broadman Press and adapted into a film strip program by Methodist Publishing House. It’s about
On Aug. 16, 1920, Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman was struck in the head by a pitch from the Yankees Carl Mays. He died the next morning. The Indians were in