Baseball’s Perfect Knights – by Roy Firestone, Multi Emmy Winning Journalist

Last week was  baseball’s opening day. and I wanted to remember the two finest people I ever knew in the sport, and probably the two finest people I had the pleasure to meet anywhere else either. The man on the left was Brooks Robinson, my very close friend for more than 50 years. We lost Brooks two years ago. And man on the my right, was Stan”The Man” Musial he has been gone 12 years.…

Sadie’s Song – by Roy Firestone, Multi-Timed Emmy Award Winning Journalist

You may know of the legendary songwriter-lyricist, Johnny Mercer. Johnny was one of the great lyricists of all time, he wrote “Moon Rover”, “The Days of Wine and Roses ” and “Autumn Leaves”. Johnny Mercer was a giant in the songwriting world. One day in 1957 a woman named Sadie Vimmerstadt, a grandmother and beautician, from Youngstown , Ohio upon hearing that Ava Gardener left Frank Sinatra, (after Sinatra left his first wife), Sadie exclaimed…