Major League Baseball

Ray Dandridge -- stuck in the Minors -- helped Willie Mays reach the Majors faster

Versions of this story previously appeared on MiLB.com. We present it here as Minor League Baseball and Major League Baseball ...
American Songwriter

Born on This Day in 1917, the Man With a Million Friends Who Founded the Most Famous Quartet in Country and Was Known as “Mr. Gospel Music”

John Wallace "Wally" Fowler, original founder of iconic country-gospel quartet The Oak Ridge Boys, was born on Feb. 15, 1917, ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1950, This Red Foley Song Became Country Music’s First-Ever Crossover Pop Hit and Was Later Covered by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra

Red Foley, one of country music's earliest stars, scored perhaps the first-ever crossover hit with "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy." ...
Air Force Times

In the bloody, urban combat to liberate Manila, this airborne ‘Angel’ sacrificed all

U.S. infantrymen make a house-to-house search for Japanese inside the ruins of the walled city of Manila, Feb. 23, 1945.