Looking back at nine decades.
By John Rossi
About: John Rossi
John Rossi: Play ball! Baseball through the ages.
Professional baseball dates from the founding of the National League in 1876 so this season will mark the 189th consecutive […]
John Rossi: Four Quarters and me
One of the pleasures of my fifty plus years teaching at La Salle College, then University, was the school’s literary […]
John Rossi: When Olney was a ‘suburb’
I grew up in the years just after World War II in a pleasant contained place that I call Lower […]
John Rossi: Christmas cards came by trolley in 1950s Philadelphia
During my junior and senior years in high school I had a part time job delivering mail at Christmas. Back […]
John Rossi: The boys of Fifth Street
Between 1950 and 1954, from the age of 14 to 17, along with a handful of my friends, my second […]
John Rossi: My love affair with libraries and librarians
As a teacher for over fifty years, libraries and archives have been my second home. When I grew up in […]
John Rossi: Adventures in education
I taught History at La Salle College — now University — for over fifty years. During that time, I estimate […]
Life lessons at a Philly rec center
Readers Digest used to run a feature, “The Most Unforgettable Character I Met.” It recounted the story of some individual […]