Articles by Joe Scotchie

In 1966, Bob Dylan was riding high. In just five short years, this obscure songwriter from small-town Minnesota had made his mark, first as the voice of folk music then to the balladeer of folk […]

People are sure living longer. The year 2023, as with all others, saw the passing of American notables. Many of those that did perish lived longer than anyone could have imagined in, say, 1923.Jim Brown, […]

For decades, the “Where were you” question concerning Nov. 22, 1963, became a lasting pastime. It came up every November and whenever the presidency of John F. Kennedy was the subject. Picture of President Kennedy […]

“Secretariat is moving like a tremendous machine.”Who can forget Chic Anderson’s famous line as Big Red raced down the finish line in the 1973 Belmont Stakes to win that year’s Triple Crown.The years have not […]

Review of: Old Truths and New Clinches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The critic Joseph Epstein liked to tell the story of an acquaintance who wanted something good to read while on a vacation. Epstein […]

“He now belongs to the ages.”So claimed Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare’s friend and contemporary upon the man’s passing in 1616 at age 52. Which has turned out to be the case.Shockingly, it almost wasn’t so. […]

Before the rise of expansion, dynasties were not uncommon in professional sports. In baseball, the New York Yankees dominated for a good 40 years, from 1927-1964. Professional football had the Green Bay Packers of Vince […]

Orwashers is a New York City institution. And now it has moved a franchise to Willis Avenue, which may be the hottest location for business opportunities on all of Long Island.The bakery has been in […]

Joe Pepitone, the Brooklyn-born New York Yankee All Star, was the team’s link from its championship run in the early 1960s to its agonizing dry period in the mid-and-late 1960s to the rebuilding process that […]

By the 1920s, baseball and prizefighting were the two major American sports. College football was huge. However, it wasn’t until the mid-1950s and the advent of television that the pro game took hold.Whatever the attraction, […]