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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.
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