Steve Dalkowski had the stuff of legends Ron Shelton, Writer-director Ron Shelton ("Bull Durham," "White Men Can't Jump," "Tin Cup") spent five years playing infield in the Baltimore Orioles' minor league system.
'The Dreamer' Alvaro Huerta, Huerta is the author of "Los Dos Smileys" in the Latino literary anthology, Latinos in Lotus Land. Special thanks to Andrew Huerta for this week's illustration.
For the Apollo astronauts, a small world Robert Poole, Robert Poole, a historian at the University of Cumbria, is the author of "Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth." earthrise.org.uk
Staring the past in the face Tom Engelhardt, Tom Engelhardt runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. This article is adapted from a longer version that appears on that website.
Fresno County, left in the dust Rick Wartzman, Rick Wartzman is the executive director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author, most recently, of "Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.' "