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The Last Of The Brooklyn Dodgers
Richard Staff interviews four former Brooklyn Dodgers players, who, despite the team's move to Los Angeles, still identify with their Brooklyn roots.
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Richard Staff
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Defector
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February 19, 2024
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The Man Who Changed Field Goals Forever
A Hungarian immigrant first brought the soccer style field kick to the NFL.
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Russ Crawford
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Made By History
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February 8, 2024
Before Taylor and Travis, There Was Helen and John
She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.
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Scott D. Peterson
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Zócalo Public Square
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January 11, 2024
The Misunderstood History of American Wrestling
A recent biography of Vince McMahon presents him as an entertainment tycoon who changed culture and politics. The real story is as banal as it is brutal.
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Nadine Smith
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The Nation
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November 10, 2023
Pete Rose Remembers the Biggest Postseason Brawl in Baseball History
“You know how many second basemen or shortstops I knocked on their ass in my career?”
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Keith O'Brien
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Intelligencer
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October 8, 2023
On the Men Who Lent Their Bodies (and Voices) to the Earliest Iterations of Superman
A wrestler, a Sunday school teacher, and a mystery man walk into a studio.
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Paul Morton
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Literary Hub
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August 10, 2023
Game Changer
On the mismatched sporting advice of Clair Bee and John R. Tunis.
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Dan McQuade
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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July 10, 2023
In Babe Ruth’s Final Steps on Public Stage, Two Brushes With History
Babe Ruth's final days revealed his mortality, and made more history, when he encountered a future U.S. president.
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Frederic J. Frommer
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Washington Post
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June 13, 2023
How Apartheid, European Racism and Pelé Helped Cultivate a Culture of Diversity in US Soccer
Major League Soccer – which starts the 2023 season on Feb. 25 – is deemed the most diverse league in the US. Its predecessor, the NASL, led the way.
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John M. Sloop
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The Conversation
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February 21, 2023
'Hit the Line Hard'
During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.
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Jake Nevins
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New York Review of Books
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February 12, 2023
The Forgotten History of Head Injuries in Sports
Stephen Casper, a medical historian, argues that the danger of C.T.E. used to be widely acknowledged. How did we unlearn what we once knew?
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Ingfei Chen
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The New Yorker
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February 11, 2023
Baseball's Reserve Clause and the "Antitrust Exemption"
The controversy between players and owners frequently brought baseball into the federal courts between the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries.
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Jake Kobrick
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Federal Judicial Center
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May 18, 2022
Baseball's Labor Wars
MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
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Peter Dreier
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Dissent
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March 28, 2022
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The Hidden History That Explains Why Team USA is Overwhelmingly White
Exclusion and violence in Western U.S. states help explain the Whiteness of winter sports.
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Sherri Sheu
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Made By History
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February 17, 2022
Nixon’s Political Football
Football's uniform appeal during the 20th century made it a popular analogy for candidates trying to relate to voters during the 1972 presidential election.
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Ryan Reft
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Library of Congress Blog
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October 21, 2021
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Amateurism, Sneaker Money, and the Forgotten Protest of the 1968 Games
One of the most audacious examples of product placement at the Olympics was staged by John Carlos and Tommie Smith.
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Harry Blutstein
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HNN
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July 25, 2021
The 'Protest' Olympics That Never Came to Be
A leftist response to the 1936 Games being held in Nazi Germany, the proposed competition was canceled by the Spanish Civil War.
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Sam Harrison
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Smithsonian Magazine
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July 19, 2021
What Counts, These Days, in Baseball?
As technologies of quantification and video capture grow more sophisticated, is baseball changing? Do those changes have moral implications?
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David Hinkin
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Public Books
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February 24, 2021
When Men Started to Obsess Over Six-Packs
Greek statues, the Napoleonic wars, and the advent of photography all played a role.
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Conor Heffernan
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The Conversation
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February 23, 2021
The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Dumbest Race Ever Run
While we're missing three weeks of sporting endeavors due to the Tokyo Olympics, we can revisit one of the most bizarre races in modern Olympic history.
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Jake Sturmer
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Rebecca Armitage
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ABC News
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July 25, 2020
How Baseball Players Became Celebrities
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth transformed America’s pastime by becoming a new kind of star.
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Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
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May 21, 2020
Eastern Sports and Western Bodies: The “Indian Club” in the U.S.
Although largely forgotten today, exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19th century.
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Daniel Elkind
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The Public Domain Review
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April 1, 2020
Althea Gibson, Who Smashed Racial Barriers in Tennis, Honored With Statue at U.S. Open
'It’s about time,' said former doubles partner Angela Buxton.
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Brigit Katz
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Smithsonian Magazine
on
August 28, 2019
How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Turned Baseball into a National Sensation
Meet the team that transformed baseball from a pastime to an industry.
by
Robert Wyss
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The Conversation
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March 27, 2019
Almost Undefeated: The Forgotten Football Upset of 1976
How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.
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Britni de la Cretaz
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Longreads
on
February 1, 2019
Field of Dreams
Migrant futboleros in greater Mexico.
by
Romeo Guzman
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Boom California
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June 13, 2018
This Seamstress Conquered Bike Racing in the 1890s
Cyclist Tillie Anderson shattered records, dominated her competition, and earned the world champion title.
by
Kate Siber
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Outside
on
May 31, 2018
A Brief History of America’s Obsession With Sneakers
Invented for athletics, sneakers eventually became status symbols and an integral part of street style.
by
Kate Keller
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Smithsonian Magazine
on
May 18, 2018
The Secret History of Chief Wahoo
Brad Ricca dives into the history of the Cleveland Indians' name and the creation of "Chief Wahoo."
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Brad Ricca
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Belt Magazine
on
June 19, 2014
Locker-Room Liberty
Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.
by
Matt Welch
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Reason
on
May 1, 2005
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