Dizzy Dean did not like Jack Miley, a columnist for the New York Daily News. Before the 1937 season, Dean, the eccentric pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, held out and demanded a new contract of ...

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Jimmy Dean liked to fish on the Mississippi Coast, pictured here in Biloxi likely in the late 1960s. His grin, the braggidiocia of a mini-fish catch and a Falstaff in his hand are all classics for ...

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — There’s plenty to cheer about in Southaven as the 26th Dizzy Dean baseball and softball World Series gets underway. About 70 boys’ baseball teams played at the Snowden Grove Complex ...

We are coming up, soon, on the 40th anniversary of Dizzy Dean's death. Four decades, hard to believe. Not so long ago, on a drive home from the Gulf Coast, we paid a visit to Ol' Diz in Bond, the ...

Dizzy Dean at spring training in 1936. The Associated Press caption read: "With his familiar wind-up, Diz is getting ready to shove one of his high hard ones toward the plate." (AP Photo) On January ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - It was just another day at the office Tuesday at the Andrews Clinic in Gulf Breeze, Fla. Dr. James Andrews, orthopedic surgeon to the stars, performed Tommy John surgery on ...

On February 26, 1935, Babe Ruth returned to Boston. Baseball's greatest player signed with the Braves, hoping to play for, and eventually manage, Boston's other team. The Release It was a dark, cold, ...

Big business in the way of baseball games is coming back in Southaven. Covid forced the cancellation of the Dizzy Dean World Series last summer. One former city official says the money the event ...

New York City's Mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, would have been proud of Dizzy Dean. Bloomberg loves to denigrate the teaching profession. Dean simply reacted to criticism from some teachers in ...