Showing posts with label Roger G. Baylor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roger G. Baylor. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

A stop last Saturday at Wolfe Cemetery in Georgetown.

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We took a low-intensity road trip last Saturday. A Saturday morning outing to Hemlock Cliffs, with an unexpected side order of unsolved murd...
Friday, August 21, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: When love and hate collide – or, my father and the governor.

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"A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's t...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

In defense of an award-winning song: "On The Atchison Topeka And Santa Fe."

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Over at Five Thirty Eight on the occasion of the Academy Awards, writer Walt Hickey had not-so-flattering things to say about the "...
Sunday, April 02, 2017

Saying goodbye, and resuming the journey.

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April 1, 2017. We drove out to Georgetown yesterday morning, and I don't mind saying that it's a strange feeling to have both...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

Or, as he was known to my friends, Rog Sr.

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Circa 1952. Roger George Baylor was born in 1925 and died in 2001, making him 35 years of age when I was born in 1960. His death pred...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

London fog, Skinnay Ennis and my old man.

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It's foggy out this morning, and every time this happens, I think of an old song. I grew up listening to this tune and hundreds mor...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Keith Olbermann on Tommy John surgeries ... and all about Steve Dalkowski.

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To put it mildly, this story goes all over the place. Let's start with a commentary yesterday by Keith Olbermann on ESPN :  Video: All...
Thursday, February 07, 2013

ON THE AVENUES: Killer Diller.

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ON THE AVENUES: Killer Diller. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. The last surviving member of Glenn Miller’s “civilian” orchestr...
Friday, October 14, 2011

For the record: Kingsport TN, 1949.

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A couple months ago, I was surprised to discover that research into the dusty archives of lower-tier baseball had advanced to the point wher...
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