“Baseball in the ’50s, early ’60s.... Ted Williams was finishing and Mickey Mantle was starting and I got to see it. Willie Mays was starting, Stan Musial was finishing. Don Drysdale was pitching and Sandy Koufax was pitching."
July 1, 1993
News & Stories
Padres' farm team manager Russ Nixon tells all
Pollution on my Mission Beach kitchen table
Dear Man Al: My white kitchen table gets coated with black, gritty, greasy filth in about two days. No, this is not about my cooking, this is about air pollution. Neighbor John thinks it's car …
July 1, 1993
The inconsistency of DIP signs
Dear Sweet Alice: What group of irrational, perverted, idiotic laws and/or bylaws govern the placement of DIP signs on our public roads? Can you inform me of the convoluted criteria consulted to determine which minuscule …
July 1, 1993
Anti-pigeon devices on top of billboards
Dear Matthew: Please, help. It’s driving me crazy. What the heck are those things on top of some billboards around town? You know, the things going around that look like radar or some kind of …
July 1, 1993