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In 1939 Baseball celebrated the 100th anniversary of its “invention” in Cooperstown, New York. On June 12 of that year the Hall of Fame and Museum, founded three years earlier, supplied a climax, opening its doors to the public. The Post Office issued a baseball stamp. Performers decked out as Knickerbockers...
To this point in the series we have reviewed the cross currents between Baseball and American life. Yet no closer relation may exist than that between man and wife when each is a celebrity.
Before Taylor and Travis, there was Marilyn and Joe .., and David Justice and Halle Be...
What makes a game great? Is it exposure, or reminiscence, or timing, or something else, like your first game with your dad (mine was May 12, 1957)? A game in May is not the same as one in October. One that you have seen, in person or on television, may not bear equal weight with one you ...
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day … you know the rest, don’t you?
Last week we revisited 1908, the year of The Merkle Game, to write about “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Oddly — for like Merkle and all his confrères, “Casey at the B...
I wrote this for Douglas Alden’s year-long project on 1927 ten years ago to the day of its republication at Our Game.
Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb in their heydayAs we read about Myles Thomas and the ’27 Yankees playing the Detroit Tigers without Ty Cobb — and the Philadelphia Athletics with Cobb i...