baseball

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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.

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• 3/24/19
  

  Is Shoeless Joe Jackson Innocent? The Black Sox Scandal 100 Years Later

  by Granville Wyche Burgess

  As another baseball season begins, the history of baseball's biggest scandal and how its legacy legacy still shapes the sport today. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/30/19
  

  How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line

  by Chris Lamb

  "She had to live through the death threats, endure the vile screams of the fans and watch her husband get knocked down by pitch after pitch. … She was beautiful and wise and replenished his strength and courage.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/31/19
  

  Reflections on Jackie Robinson's Legacy on His 100th Birthday

  Through images and personal essays by longtime New York Times writers, a vivid look at the man who made baseball truly American.

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• 10/21/18
  

  Remember When the Dodgers and Giants Moved West?

  by Lincoln Mitchell

  This was one of the consequences.

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• 4/29/18
  

  Why We Think of Babe Ruth as an Overgrown Boy and Why We’re Wrong

  by Edmund F. Wehrle

  What this historian learned by reexamining Ruth’s life from a racial and gender perspective.

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• 3/25/18
  

  Before Kap and Ali There Was Baseball’s Dr. Wimbish

  by Adam Henig

  He helped desegregate spring training.

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• 10-24-16
  

  6 Great World Series!

  by Mark Weisenmiller

  For over one hundred years, major league baseball’s World Series has both thrilled fans and reflected historical and societal changes in the United States.

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• 11-11-15
  

  This Is What Heroism Looked Like in World War II

  by Gregory Sumner

  The Jewish baseball player who left the field to fight Hitler.

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• SOURCE: UCLA Newsroom
  10-13-15
  

  Q&A with UCLA history professor Joan Waugh on baseball in America’s Gilded Age

  C-SPAN recently aired a recording of UCLA history professor Joan Waugh’s annual lecture on the history of baseball in the late 1800s

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• 9-9-15
  

  Shoeless Joe Jackson Fans Shouldn’t Be Disappointed He Won’t Be Admitted into the Hall of Fame

  by Charles Fountain

  He’s better off remaining an outsider. He’s more interesting that way.