baseball

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/22/2020
  

  When the KKK Played Against an All-Black Baseball Team

  by John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro

  For the white-robed, playing a black team was a gift-wrapped photo op, a chance to show that the Klan was part of the local community—even the black citizens.

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• SOURCE: CBS Sports
  6/7/2020
  

  Stealing Home' Author Eric Nusbaum Discusses the Secret History of Dodger Stadium

  Nusbaum's book, released in March, details the human cost of the stadium's construction.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/25/2020
  

  How Baseball Players Became Celebrities

  Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, idols of the Golden Age of sports, brought stardom to America’s pastime.

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  5/18/2020
  

  Baseball History and Rural America

  The study of how baseball evolved, historain David Vaught writes, remains a test of how history is written--from concern with origin moments or attention to ongoing processes of change and development.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/10/2020
  

  Mary Pratt, Southpaw Pitcher in a Pioneering Women’s Baseball League, Dies at 101

  Ms. Pratt, who died May 6 at 101, was one of the first members of the Rockford Peaches, a powerhouse Illinois team formed in 1943 and immortalized in director Penny Marshall’s sports comedy “A League of Their Own.”

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• SOURCE: Newsday
  3/24/2020
  

  The War (Not The Flu) That Saved The World Series

  “The World Series being moved up had nothing to do with influenza; it had everything to do with the politics of war,” said Purdue historian Randy Roberts, 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/26/2020
  

  Babe Ruth's New York @ 100

  by Jonathan Goldman

  When Babe Ruth started hitting home runs, the US started to change.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books Daily
  2/20/20
  

  Sean Wilentz Writes Article on History of Cheating in Baseball for NYR Daily

  by Sean Wilentz

  "Say It Is So: Baseball’s Disgrace"

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/13/20
  

  On the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, a look back at what was lost

  by Rob Ruck

  After World War II, Jackie Robinson hurdled baseball’s racial divide. But while integration – baseball’s great experiment – was a resounding success on the field, at the gates and in changing racial attitudes, Negro League teams soon lost all of their stars and struggled to retain fans. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/30/19
  

  Why on Earth Did Boston Sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees?

  by Jane Leavy

  The sale, at the end of 1919, changed baseball — and New York City — forever.

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• 11/5/19
  

  A Baseball Musical that Needs Some Relief Pitching

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Last Days of Summer, written by Steve Kluger and based on his 1998 novel, is the story about players from the New York Giants 1940 team, that toiled in New York along with the Yankees and Dodgers, and a little kid who loved the game.

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• 11/7/19
  

  The History Briefing on Presidential Booing: How Historians Contextualized the News

  by Chelsea Connolly

  Historians Lawrence Glickman, Kevin Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, and others weigh in on President Trump's not-so-warm welcome at Game 5 of the World Series.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/27/19
  

  Washington Post Quotes Historian Ryan Swanson in Article about Teddy Roosevelt and Baseball

  Among Nationals fans, Teddy Roosevelt is a favorite in the ballpark’s Presidents Race. But in real life, he deplored the sport as a ‘mollycoddle game.’

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/28/19
  

  A history of booing the president at MLB games, from ‘we want beer’ to ‘lock him up’

  Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama were all booed at baseball games. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  10/10/19
  

  The Feminist History of ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’

  by Anna Laymon

  The song was written as Jack Norworth’s ode to his girlfriend, the progressive and outspoken Trixie Friganza, a famous vaudeville actress and suffragist.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/10/19
  

  Abraham Lincoln, Washington Nationals fan

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  The long history of baseball in D.C. after the Nationals clenchend a National League Conference Series appearance. 

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• SOURCE: The Athletic
  8/14/19
  

  The Athletic Profiles Sean Wilentz's Mentorship of Yankees First Baseman Mike Ford

  When a talented Princeton baseball player named Mike Ford needed an adviser for his senior thesis, Wilentz thought it could be a match. 

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• 8/18/19
  

  The Washington Nationals Should Stop Letting Teddy Win – He Hated Baseball

  by Ryan Swanson

  The history of baseball's great Roosevelt chase and why Teddy Roosevelt never liked baseball. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/15/19
  

  The first African American major league baseball player isn’t who you think

  As the country celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, let’s consider the career of Fleet Walker.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/27/19
  

  How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings turned baseball into a national sensation

  by Robert Wyss

  This season marks the 150th anniversary of the first professional baseball team and the start of its eye-popping 81-game winning streak.