Article Archives: Bumps in the Night

Robert Rayford: America’s First AIDS Victim

May 8, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Forty-five years ago this week, May 16,1969, the face of modern medicine changed forever when 15-year-old Robert Rayford, sometimes identified as “Robert R.” due to his age, died in a St. Louis, Missouri hospital. He was a slender, uncommunicative street kid whose condition left doctors distressed, perplexed — and scared. … Read More

The Polo Grounds’ Indianapolis Connection, Part 2

May 1, 2014 | by Al Hunter

On Sunday, September 29, 1957, a crowd of 11,606 came to the Polo Grounds to see Willie Mays play his last game for the New York Giants. Based on the illustrious baseball legacy of the New York Giants, you’d think that all 54,555 seats in the old Polo Grounds on … Read More

The Polo Grounds’ Indianapolis Connection

April 24, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Fifty years ago this month, an American baseball shrine breathed it’s last breath. On April 10, 1964, a two-ton steel wrecking ball crashed into the side of the Polo Grounds located beneath Coogan’s Bluff in upper Manhattan. The walls came crashing down under the same wrecking ball (painted to look … Read More

Teach Your Children Well

April 17, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Recently I took my wife and daughter out antiquing on a sunny Saturday morning. Coming off the coldest, bitterest winter I can remember, we really were just itching for a reason to get out of the house. We piled in the car and drove over to Dayton, Ohio to a … Read More

The Plots to Kill Richard Nixon from the Sky, Part 2

April 10, 2014 | by Al Hunter

Where were you 40 years ago? February 1974 was a busy month in pop history. “Good Times” (a spin-off from “Maude”) premiered on CBS TV, Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” became her first Number 1 hit, Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the U.S. House … Read More