http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Dean+Whitney Sports Dean Whitney Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=316644&ca=Sports It’s no secret that 2008 has been a dismal season for the Padres. With only four games remaining at this writing, there’s still a chance they’ll end the season with a hundred losses. Only the Seattle Mariners and Washington Nationals have worse records. So, it’s time to take a look at what the Pads... Sports Dean Whitney Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=314290&ca=Sports There’s a very famous limited-edition 1988 lithograph by renowned sports artist Ron Lewis that features eleven then-living members of the elite 500 Home Run Club. The litho, which is aptly entitled “500 Home Run Hitters Club,” was produced in conjunction with an Atlantic city show in 1988 at which t... Sports Dean Whitney Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=312421&ca=Sports While searching the internet for information about an old establishment that once existed in the sleepy little village in which I grew up in Southern California, I accidently stumbled upon a website dedicated to my high school graduating class of 1964. Intrigued, I decided to stop and take a look a... Sports Dean Whitney Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=309304&ca=Sports I became a baseball fan in 1955 while living in Sacramento, California. That was the year the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series. I didn’t understand that much about the game then, but I quickly learned. My favorite player at that time was Duke Snider. The reason for... Writing Dean Whitney Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=308102&ca=Writing Although my comments in this article are primarily directed toward senior citizens sixty-five and above, they could also apply to virtually anyone over fifty-five who is retired or semi-retired and has a lot of extra time on their hands. The music business began to dry up for me when I was in my mid... Sports Dean Whitney Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=308103&ca=Sports A few of the intelligent, attractive, and generous folks who have read my book, Pinch Hitter, have commented that I should’ve written more about the history of pinch hitters in my brief description before Chapter One. Well, I guess I could’ve done that, but Pinch Hitter is a fictional story about a...