Writer @washingtonpost and other natl pubs. Sports & politics historian. Author of book on Nats history. Alum @AP @CNN. Also follow me @ffrommer.bsky.social
Joined April 2009
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8 Dec 2024
50 years ago, Howard Cosell interviewed John Lennon on #MondayNightFootball - then made a longshot bid to have the Beatle reunite on Cosell's short-lived TV variety show. My story today ... @dcsportsbog @coachbuckethead @rickklein @JeremySchaap
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Jun 11
With the Knicks just one win away from a championship, here's a look back at my @washingtonpost history of the team's half-century title drought, including memories from coach Red Holzman. Go #Knicks! @LenElmore @coachbuckethead @rickklein @JeremySchaap
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Jun 3
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In my first year as a fan, the Knicks couldn't even sell out their final playoff game in a humbling sweep by @JuliusErving and the 76ers. My essay on how far the Knicks & NBA have come. @NBA_NewYork @PabloTorre @JeremySchaap @coachbuckethead @rickklein
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May 25
When Pres. Trump recently wondered "if junk food is good and the other food is no good," he channeled what scientists discovered in the year 2173 - in Woody Allen's film "Sleeper." My story in the @thedispatch @MichaelReneau @rickklein @coachbuckethead
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May 9
My story on Ted Turner's one-day stint as Braves manager in 1977. The next, while awaiting an appeal from the NL banning him from doing it again, he said. “I wish I could hit somebody, but there’s nobody to hit.” @rickklein @coachbuckethead
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May 5
With Trump bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test, a look back at my @WashPost story about JFK turning to athletes like Stan Musial to get "soft Americans" into shape. @dcsportsbog @coachbuckethead @rickklein
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Apr 27
My story this morning atop @guardian homepage, about then-Prince Charles's 1970 visit to Washington, when he was befuddled by a baseball game. As his host David Eisenhower recalled, "He didn't enjoy it that much." @rickklein @coachbuckethead @dick_nixon
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Apr 16
As baseball adjusts to the new ABS system, @ffrommer reminds us that the search for the perfect robot umpire goes back nearly a century. Great history here. contrariannews.org/p/invento…
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Apr 16
Inventors Have Looked to Perfect ‘Robot Umpires’ for Better Part of a Century, as this vintage NYT headline illustrates. My story today ... @rickklein @coachbuckethead @JeremySchaap open.substack.com/pub/contra…
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Apr 15
#OTD 50 Years Ago, the completely renovated Yankee Stadium reopened in the Bronx, costing a nearly-broke NYC $100 million. My story ...
@coachbuckethead
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Apr 3
Great chatting with @TheCurrentCBC this week about baseball's new ABS system, aka "Robot umps." @coachbuckethead
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Mar 26
Great chatting with @RyanChandlerTV on @HallieOnNBC about the looming baseball lockout next year. But don't let '27 worries spoil this year's Opening Day! @HallieJackson @SuzGamboa @KDilanianMSNOW @ScarboroughNow
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Mar 20
60 years ago Texas Western became the first team with an all-Black starting lineup to win the NCAA Title. My story ... @LenElmore @JeremySchaap @rickklein @coachbuckethead
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Feb 19
I wrote about Jackie Robinson's debut with the Dodgers' top minor league team-80 years ago-on his way to breaking the color barrier in 1947: contrarian.substack.com/p/ja…. And I'll be talking about his legacy at a @smithsonian Zoom tonight: tinyurl.com/4abcy6me @coachbuckethead
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Feb 18
I'll be giving a Smithsonian virtual talk Thursday with my pal Phil Hochberg on the career of Jackie Robinson, including his minor league season with the Montreal Royals, 80 years ago this spring. Hope you can tune in! smithsonianassociates.org/ti…
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Feb 7
Before Bad Bunny, there was Up With People, the first #SuperBowl halftime musical act after a decade of marching bands. Sample cheesy lyrics, about the US bicentennial: “200 Years and just a baby … Someday, she’s going to be quite a lady.” My story:
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Feb 5
With pitchers and catchers reporting next week, take a look at a classic cartoon, "Baseball Bugs," which came out 80 years ago and gave us the "Bugs Bunny changeup." My takeout today ... @coachbuckethead @rickklein @JeremySchaap
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I mean. This is all I have been talking about (outside of work hours) for the last month. There is a LOT of money in our town, and giant mobs of people who want to read about how things work here, and (as of today) many, many brilliant and unemployed journalists. Do it. Someone.
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