Slammin’ Sammy Swindell, the fiercest driver dirt racing has ever seen
Sammy Swindell is a race car driver, a legendary motorsport. Naturally, I wanted his opinion on Mario Kurt. “Mario Kurt?” he asks whether he's amused or annoyed. It's hard to tell Sammy. “Yeah, I played a bit. But racing video games aren't real. They don't give you a full-body experience.” “When the car gets off […]
Yankees’ rivalry with Royals was once fiercest of them all
I once wrote a book called “The Emperor and the Idiot,'' about the history of the rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox, for which I interviewed nearly 150 former baseball players, managers, and executives. What struck me most was that almost all of these players had played for teams other than the Yankees and […]