Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. A stone building with blue trim, once used as a laboratory, now holds much of the ...

Anne Keene talks about “The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team that Helped Win WWII,” on “North Carolina Bookwatch,” Sunday, Sept. 29, at 11 a.m. and Tuesday, Oct ...

WHEN SADDLEBACK MOUNTAIN REOPENED IN 2020 AFTER A FIVE YEAR CLOSURE, THE NEW OWNERS WERE INTENT ON KEEPING IT THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT. $30 MILLION WERE EARMARKED FOR FOUR NEW CHAIRLIFTS, RENOVATION OF ...

Prologue: Babe's Yanklands versus the Navy pilots, July 28, 1943 -- Foreword / by Claudia Williams -- Part I--MAY 11, 1943. The "baseball squad" ; The comeback kid ; Ration-league baseball -- Part II- ...

For baseball enthusiasts who need their baseball fix, this book will do the trick. It chronicles the story of an elite group of fighter-pilot cadets who wore the Cloudbuster Nine baseball jersey at a ...

Ivan Fleser was roughly 500 miles off the California coast when his plane experienced electrical failure. One by one the engines shut off. As the navigator for the U.S. Navy maritime patrol bomber, he ...