baseball

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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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• SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
  4-3-15
  

  Our national pastime past its time, deserves renewal

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  What the game really needs is a new connection with the nation itself.

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• SOURCE: History
  6-11-14
  

  Baseball’s Cooperstown Myth

  by Christopher Klein

  In reality the shrine to baseball’s gods was built on top of an elaborate creation myth.

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• 5-25-14
  

  You Know Jackie Robinson, but Shouldn't We Remember Moses Fleetwood Walker, too?

  by Michael H. Ebner

  Moses Fleetwood Walker should not be regarded as a trivial footnote.

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• SOURCE: LAWCHA
  5-10-14
  

  The baseball player who became a memorable trade unionist in the 19th century

  by Mark Lause

  In a history often preoccupied with the jostling of owners and promoters, it’s worth remembering the contribution of John Montgomery Ward.