Peter Cooney

Writer, history and literature buff, hockey and baseball fan, retired journalist. Views expressed here are my own.

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

When three words are more powerful than a thousand pictures 🇨🇦

[J.D.M. Stewart @jdmstewart1]

It's pretty hard to achieve this online. This is just another of the reasons I love the printed newspaper. You can say so much with design and front pages.

You can imagine a historian going back into newspaper archive to write about this. And coming across this front page.

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

160 years ago today- and it feels like it

[National Mall NPS @NationalMallNPS]

#OTD in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Second Inaugural Address. Nearing the end of the Civil War, he reached for hope & reconciliation: "With malice towards none, with charity for all." The speech is carved into the walls of the Lincoln Memorial.

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

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[Hockey Night in Canada @hockeynight]

CONNOR MCDAVID 🚨 CANADA WINS 🇨🇦 #4Nations

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

Vive le Canada!

[Bruce A. Heyman @BruceAHeyman]

Opinion: Jean Chrétien: Canadians will never give up the best country in the world to join the U.S. - The Globe and Mail https://t.co/mASl3Y7tTT

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

Bravo!

[Columbia Football @CULionsFB]

HISTORY MADE 🏆

The Columbia Lions are Ivy League Champions for the first time since 1961!

#RoarLionRoar 🦁 // #OnlyHere 🗽

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

Will be their 12th World Series encounter, seven of which were Subway Series

[Yogi Berra Museum @YogiBerraMuseum]

A Yankees and Dodgers #WorldSeries? It’s deja vu all over again.

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

Unforgettable moment for those of us old enough to have watched it

[Baseball by BSmile @BSmile]

Today In 1964: New York #Yankees legend Mickey Mantle hits a walk-off HR vs. the St. Louis Cardinals to win Game 3 of the #WorldSeries at Yankee Stadium! #MLB #Baseball #History #Postseason #RepBX

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

Caps opening 50th season - The original Washington Capitals expanded the definition of bad https://t.co/btFiYCSSh6

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

100 years ago today - Washington wins its first World Series. Second one would have to wait 95 years until Nats’ championship in 2019

[David Lawson @dtlawson]

In 2014 a piece of lost media became found again: A nitrate film newsreel was found in a Worcester, Massachusetts attic containing footage of Game 7 of the 1924 World Series. The only Washington Senators championship. An event that happened 100 years ago in DC.

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

First World Series game in Washington-100 years ago today

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Some jaw dropping highlights from the 1924 World Series. Best thing you’ll see today

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Jimmy Carter becomes the first U.S. President in history to turn 100 years old.

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

Willie Mays made “The Catch” on this date in 1954. Seventy years later, it’s as impressive now as it was back then.

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

@PaulMayne6 I suppose it’s all about the merch. But why would anyone want to buy those awful All-Star and City Connect jerseys anyway?

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

@PaulMayne6 I suppose it’s all about merch. But why would anybody want to buy those awful All-Star and City Connect uniforms anyway?

[George’s Classic Hollywood(GP) @CHC_1927]

Happy 100th birthday to the living legend Eva Marie Saint.

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

Another Giants legend passes #sfgiants https://t.co/00qRoS8veV

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

Mays' over-the-shoulder grab in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series at the Polo Grounds is an iconic baseball play

Source: https://t.co/pXeT0rNbX5 https://t.co/Cfxi8PXm6u

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

In memory of the one and only Willie Mays #sfgiants #williemays #mlb

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took 'Earthrise' photo, dead in plane crash https://t.co/GKM33u4Lzl

[Peter Cooney @pcooney55]

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