It is almost always the case. Hidden in the stories of successful people are chapters full of disappointments, difficulties, trials and failures. Although painful, these chapters are an essential part of the overall story. Some of the worst chapters in our lives...
December 12, 1969 – M.D Anderson Cancer Institute in Houston, Texas: Doctors amputated Freddie Steinmark’s left leg at the hip. What he had hoped was a deep thigh bruise had been diagnosed as osteogenic sarcoma, a deadly form of bone cancer. Just six days before...
September 4, 1993 – Yankee Stadium – Bronx, New York City: He stood on the mound in the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium. For a long moment he studied the scoreboard in center field and thought back on his life – just six outs away from pitching a no-hitter – a dream...
October 22, 1938 – Small apartment in Queens, New York: Chester Carlson and his buddy Otto Kornei, an unemployed physicist, stared at each other in disbelief. After a year of experiments in the kitchen, several fires, and an angry wife, they had produced the world’s...
July 7, 1908 – USS Decatur, Batangas Harbor, Philippines: The USS Decatur, the first destroyer commissioned in the U.S. Navy, ran aground on a sandbar as it entered Batangas Harbor. Chester Nimitz, the 22-year-old officer in command of the ship, was humiliated in...
More than 30 years later, Bob Brenly still gets letters from pastors. They want him to know that they used what happened to him in September 1986 as a teaching moment in a sermon. Mike Krukow, a San Francisco Giants pitcher, would agree. After that bizarre major...
