Photo: Legion Park, Greenwood, S.C., in 1976. Home of the Greenwood Braves Single A team. (Courtesy of digitalballparks.com) When you spend baseball season working with 30-40 guys on a Single A minor league team, and you’re the newbie, initiation into the culture is an eye opener. Richard Andersen, who became general manager of the Greenwood […]
Lee Zeidman was calmly watching load-in of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at Staples Center in Los Angeles in 2000. He had this. Staples Center had been open eight months. AEG, venue owners, sold their site to the DNC when it was a hole in the ground. It was built to handle two National Basketball […]
The Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, circa 1975. Legend has it that when Denzil Skinner privatized the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans in 1977, he faced extreme dangers probably unknown to venue managers today. When David, Denzil’s son, and Mike Noah, his son-in-law, first toured the stadium, they opened every door, and found people’s living rooms […]