John Rossi, Author at Broad + Liberty

I taught History at La Salle College — now University — for over fifty years. During that time, I estimate […]

Old-time baseball in ‘the dump on the hump’

Remembering a time when the Phillies weren’t flying so high.
By John Rossi

Readers Digest used to run a feature, “The Most Unforgettable Character I Met.” It recounted the story of some individual […]

Every baseball fan knows the song “Willie, Mickey, and the Duke” about the three great Big Apple sluggers of the […]

When I married my wife Frances in 1966, she took me not only for better or worse, but also for […]

Philadelphia has had an inferiority complex towards New York. The city never seemed to get over being bypassed in the […]

For the first 26 years of my life, I had two mothers. Let me explain. My real mother, Muriel White […]

For eighty-two years, I either lived in Philadelphia or worked there. Some of my fondest memories of living in the […]