Imposing, yet not without elegance. The Breguet ‘Deux-Ponts’ was a cargo and passenger aircraft introduced in 1949 and operated by Air France from 1953 to 1972.
Its most distinctive feature is its two-deck configuration.
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Old-fashioned hangar with rounded roof, air sock at peak, clouds behind.
That old time aviation vibe: Hangar, Grimes Field, Urbana OH, October 2015. — #avgeeks
Sketch of vendor with cap and basket of bottles, tossing or catching a coin.
A favorite sketch of a soda vendor, from a larger baseball cartoon. Also appropriate for OSU’s spring football game this afternoon. (Thornton Fisher, New York Evening World, April 12, 1922.)
14 aircraft from various American airlines, parked closely together on tarmac, tower in distance.
Gaggle of passenger aircraft, Columbus OH international airport, April 2020, during the Covid shutdown. — #avgeeks
My thanks to Enrique Acosta Gonzalez and the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation for the discussion, viewable on YouTube.
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Back of baseball jersey. Large number 19 in red, with name Leeke above and Historian below.
Gift from a Canadian Forces team for helping plan a #ww1 baseball game at Folkestone UK in 2019. Proudly displayed in my man cave.
Stylized black-and-white bald eagle, carrying a black and dark blue bomb, against an orange circle.
Mexican Border Patrol insignia, 1919. National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Dayton OH USA. — #avgeeks
Red-white-and-blue, diamond-and-baseball logo of the American Valor podcast.
Thanks to Enrique Acosta Gonzalez of the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation for the excellent discussion this morning. The episode will go live Thursday.
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Thanks to the Baseball Book Club podcast for the interview, which will air during the summer.
Lopes on baseball card, wielding a bat in green Oakland uniform.
RIP, Davey Lopes. I had the pleasure of covering him on the 1983 Oakland A’s club. This is his Granny Goose card that season.
I had the pleasure of covering Davey Lopes on the 1983 Oakland club.
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I actually took this photo in 2018. But I’ve seen photos of doughboys and Tommies playing just about everywhere during the war.
Young man in doughboy winter uniform, throwing a baseball.
WWI baseball in Nashville this week in 2018, sponsored by Tennessee State Parks. Keep this photo on my desk.
Book over plus text: "A SEASON LIKE NO OTHER. THE YEAR THE DRAFT BOARD HIT HARDER THAN ANY RIVAL."
Digital banner for Battlefields: The Chicago White Sox and the Great War, from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social. The "season like no other" was 1918, the year before the Black Sox threw the World Series.
Photo of retired American League umpire Ron Luciano, smiling in jacket and tie, pointing to photo of himself in uniform on the diamond, pointing to a runner, probably after calling him out.
A favorite photo of umpire-turned-broadcaster-turned-author Ron Luciano. Learn more in my biography, "Big Loosh," from @univnebpress.bsky.social. (Binghamton NY Press, March 24, 1982.)
Covers of 18 baseball books on The SABR Bookshelf: Spring 2026.
Happy to be right in the middle of the SABR bookshelf! Check out Battlefields: The Chicago White Sox and the Great War, from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social, and all the other spring titles.
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One part of the federal government still works. Renewed my passport online, it arrived in two weeks. Now hope we'll be welcome overseas.
Biplane with black-and-white striped fuselage, wooden propeller, dappled multicolored wings.
Halberstadt CL IV (German, 1918), National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton OH — #avgeeks
Head-on view of autogiro, propeller and engine cowling gleaming.
Kellet K-2/K-3 Autogiro, National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton OH. — #avgeeks
Sign painted on brick wall, showing blue biplane against clouds. Text: NEW CARLISLE, OHIO HERITACE OF FLIGHT Festival and Parade FIRST WEEKEND IN OCTOBER
I think this was common at the time. A wire ticker provided bare facts, the broadcaster embellished as needed to fill in the gaps. A batter might foul off several pitches, for instance, if there was a delay in the announcer getting the next message. Dutch would’ve been good at that sort of thing.
ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE:
"When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."
Ballpark on hill overlooking factories along the Ohio River. Small grandstand, trees inside outfield fence.
A favorite image I like to share in the spring. This ballpark on the Ohio River was home to the Portsmouth Cobblers in the Ohio State League (1908-1916), both now long gone. The penny postcard was mailed in September 1919.
American flags in breeze above crowd, sunlit Statehouse rotunda in background.
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Flags of Ohio and Ukraine flying in breeze from same staff.
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Yellow homemade sign: “Stop Killing Start Impeaching!”
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Black-and-white grainy photo of young woman in western shirt and wide cowboy hat.
My favorite accidental newspaper find. Rodeo Queen Esther Yokley, Southwest Range Stock Show and Roundup, El Paso TX, 1930. (El Paso Evening Post photo)
