During one of the recent sermons at our rural All-Saints Catholic Church, Rev. Terry Bennis shared recollections of growing up in LaPorte.

1973 The "Alert Orange Baseball" was used for the first time in major league history. The unique baseball, an invention of Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley, was used in an exhibition game ...

Stubborn: Think Bill Veeck was colorful? Charlie Finley would've been a bag of melted Skittles. (It would prove to be only the first of two times, 17 years apart, that Veeck would thwart Finley's ...