Y.A. Tittle

John Mara always liked Saturdays. That's when his father, Wellington, the owner of the Giants, would take him and his brothers to Giants practices at Yankee Stadium. The Mara boys would have the run of the place, sprinting around the field, climbing...

Yankee Stadium always could catch your attention. That fact stands behind all of the memories that are being held so tightly today. To hold something, first you have to catch it. And a lot of those memories fittingly revolve around catches. The...

Everything They Had Sports Writing From David Halberstam David Halberstam Hyperion: 402 pp., $24.95 When David Halberstam was killed in a car crash near San Francisco last spring, he'd just finished what turned out to be his final book, "The Coldest...

Yelberton Abraham Tittle, famously known as Y.A., enjoys a laid-back, simple life. He's 81 years old, resides just off the San Francisco Bay and still reports to work at the insurance agency that bears his name. He said he goes in to the office for a half...

Grit, savvy and sheer brutality--those are classic Chicago traits, no matter the endeavor, and they brought the National Football League championship to Chicago on this date, when the Bears defeated the New York Giants 14-10. The Bears had not been a...

In the spring of 1960, my dad, who worked at RCA Victor, was assigned to accompany Elvis Presley home to Nashville from Ft. Dix, N.J. Elvis, who had just returned from his service in the Army, was about to make his first recording for RCA. They...

David Halberstam, a tireless reporter who produced richly detailed chronicles of some of the great stories in modern American history - from the struggle for civil rights to Vietnam to the decline of the Detroit auto industry - as well as biographies of...

The news of David Halberstam's death hit me like a sharp jab in the chest. It was strange because I don't generally experience strong feelings at the passing of public people. But I had only to stare at my bookcase to know the reason. When you own...

May 7, 1933 Born in Pittsburgh. Spring 1955 Drafted in the ninth round by the Pittsburgh Steelers after completing his career at the University of Louisville. Fall 1955 After being cut by the Steelers, plays with a semipro team in Pittsburgh for $6 a...

They came to watch the cold war, to be fought at Memorial Stadium on an icy Sunday in late November 1958. On the field, Popsicle-hard at 2 o'clock, the high-flying Colts readied to play San Francisco, a team Baltimore had rarely beaten. At game time, the...

Jim McKay loves to tell stories. He's told stories about the wide world of sports for 50 years. Now he's telling his own. On Halloween, he finished the manuscript of the book-length story of his 50 years in television, just two days after the anniversary...

An autograph-seeker approached John Mackey, the 10th former Baltimore Colt to achieve the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He obliged, adding his jersey number, 88, and a team identity -- Colts. The youngster said he regretted the Colts had such a bad year....