DOG ASIDE: This video gives the viewer an inside look at American athletes training for the Olympic Modern Pentathlon at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX…..for it was decided in 1955….by the Department of Defense….that the Army Base at Ft. Sam (that’s what we Texans call it) would become the national training center for…
DOG ASIDE: On April 12, 1980….President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer. The announcement came after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter’s February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. The Soviet military invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to…
DOG ASIDE: The 1964 World Series pitted the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals against the American League champion New York Yankees….with the Cardinals prevailing in seven games. St. Louis won their seventh world championship….while the Yankees….who had appeared in 14 of 16 World Series since 1949….did not play in the Series again until 1976.…
DOG ASIDE: The 1964 New York Yankees season was the 62nd season for the Yankees….as the team finished with a record of 99–63….winning their 29th pennant…..and finishing 1 game ahead of the Chicago White Sox. The Yanks were managed by Yogi Berra….playing at Yankee Stadium.,,,where in the World Series….they were defeated by the St. Louis…
DOG ASIDE: Bone Daddy was a graduating senior at Midland High School when the 1965 NY Yankees season started….with plans of heading to Austin, TX to attend The University of Texas in the fall of ’65….where he would watch his 1st World Series as a college freshman…..but he would not be watching his beloved Yankees…
