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Cartwright, Robinson recalled by hard-core baseball fans
play ball! Serious baseball fans will gather Monday at the Oahu Cemetery grave of
Alexander Cartwright, father of baseball. Monday is Cartwright's birthday and marks the first anniversary of the laying of a plaque at his grave. The public is invited to a ceremony at 11 a.m., followed by a no-host lunch at Murphy's. Fans such as
Jim Leahey, Lyle Nelson, Jack Sullivan, Ferd Borsch, Lou Matlin, Don Robbs and
Bob Corboy will be there. Cartwright lived his adult life in Honolulu and is in the Baseball Hall of Fame ...
Today is Jackie Robinson Day, the first day that a black player played in a major league baseball game. It was April 15, 1947, in Brooklyn and Robinson and the Dodgers lost to the Boston Braves, 5-3. Retired Star-Bulletin columnist Jim Becker wrote the locker room story for Associated Press. That day, and a story about Robinson playing football games in Honolulu Stadium for the Honolulu Bears, will be recalled in Jim's book, "Saints, Sinners and Shortstops." The title and foreword are by Cobey Black, another retired Bulletin columnist. Jim's coverage of the Korean War, Cuban missile crisis and "The Day the (Farrington football) Governors Won It All" are in the book. He will sign copies next Saturday at the Book Fair at City Hall, 3 p.m., in the Bess Press booth ...
Smuin Ballet VIP package includes Bistro Party
As part of Ballet Hawaii's VIP package for the Smuin Ballet,
Joey Caldarone, backed by pianist
Tennyson Stevens, will sing
Sinatra and
Gershwin at a Bistro at Century Center reception Thursday, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The San Francisco-based Smuin company will salute Sinatra and Gershwin in next Saturday's Blaisdell Concert Hall program. Bistro owner
Jackie Takeshita is a Ballet Hawaii board member and she and Chef
Rodney Uyehara have put their heads together to plan a worthy event. The VIP package is $100 and also includes a Golden Circle seat and VIP parking at Blaisdell. Call 521-8600 for reservations ... Dancing on: Hawaii State Ballet dancer
Mairi Bell, 17, will compete in the New York Grand Prix Competition Tuesday through Sunday. Mairi recently took part in the junior division of the International Ballet Competition at the Ukraine's Kiev Opera House. She is the daughter of
Larry and
Hatsue Bell ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of people, places and things every Wednesday and Saturday. E-mail him at
bwood@starbulletin.com