NEW YORK — At 5 feet 6 inches, Marv Rotblatt was one of Major League Baseball’s shortest pitchers, and his career was short as well. A left-hander used mostly in relief, he pitched in 35 games for the ...

The shortest pitcher to ever play major league baseball. Marv Rotblatt came from Albany Park in Chicago with a talent for throwing sinking curveballs At The University of Illinois, he was penned, “Mr.

• That Willie Louis, who in 1955 braved intimidation and testified against Emmett Till’s killers, died last week in Oak Lawn at age 76? (Despite Louis’s testimony, an all-white Mississippi jury ...