Major League Baseball’s opening day is here and what better way to honor the day than to remember a famous baseball player and his time on the Central Coast. We are talking about Joe DiMaggio.With the ...

Trainees take a break under a sign reading "Pistol Range L". Fort Ord, where Williams was sent for basic training in 1950-51, was a United States Army post in Monterey, California. Used for military ...

Fifty-five years have come and gone. In the spring of 1964, I was a 19-year-old basic trainee at the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Ord. I’d embarked upon a personal mission and was convinced that ...

It was a word that sent chills down my spine. In 1962, meningococcal meningitis appeared in pestilential proportions at bucolic Fort Ord on Monterey Bay. I was just getting ready to graduate from ...

Fort Ord, where Williams was sent for basic training in 1950-51, was a United States Army post in Monterey, California. Used for military training beginning in 1917, the post became a Fort in 1941 and ...