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Tag Archives: baseball
Backlist Bop: Lifters and jaffas and twin killings and homers
in sports history
Tagged Backlist Bop, baseball, cricket, sports
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I once tried to explain baseball to a British friend while we watched a Cubs game. By the sixth inning, after going aground on the dropped third strike and tagging up on a fly ball, I said that baseball, like … Continue reading
Karmageddon II
in Chicago, sports history
Tagged baseball, Before the Ivy, Chicago Cubs, Laurent Pernot, sports history
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Tonight, the world once again courts apocalypse, as the Chicago Cubs put on their best woolens to embark on the long, untrod road to the World Series. Winners of over 100 games for the first time since the Great Depression, … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday: Ready for some football
in biography, sports history
Tagged baseball, Elliott J. Gorn, football, John M. Carroll, Michael Oriard, NFL, Red Grange, sports history, sports media, Warren Goldstein
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Tonight, the National Football League and the betting on same return to thrill America. Sure, you know the quarterback rating of all the miserable underperformers who have gone under center for your team since the Kennedy administration. Why not add some … Continue reading
Afternoon of a Centaur
in sports history
Tagged baseball, drugs, Nathan Michael Corzine, Team Chemistry
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Evolving (?) from fresh-faced wunderkind and secret marketing savant to reviled steroid-using superjock damned for his cleats of clay, Alex Rodriguez was the marquee baseball player of his era, reflecting Major League Baseball’s unprecedented financial growth—the man signed two contracts worth over $250 … Continue reading
Fixed That For You
in Chicago, sports history
Tagged baseball, Daniel A. Nathan, scandal, White Sox
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In 1921, with Independence Day festivities out of the way, jury selection began on the biggest scandal to hit the sports world in years: the Black Sox case, with a clutch of eight White Sox players facing justice for throwing … Continue reading
Release Party: Game Faces
in law, sports history
Tagged baseball, Don Newcombe, Game Faces, law, Sarah K. Fields
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Sports figures have a public profile once reserved for the likes of reigning monarchs and movie stars. In the new UIP book Game Faces, Sarah K. Fields looks at six people faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and images, … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday: The Pitching Hour
in american history, sports history
Tagged antitrust exemption, baseball, Josh Gibson, Latin American baseball players, Marvin Miller
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For a boring sport, baseball sure produces a lot of interesting writing. Maybe because writers have a lot of time to think, take notes, nap, and so on waiting for something to happen during a game. And then when something … Continue reading
Kind of Blue
in Illinois / regional, sports history
Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, baseball, Before the Ivy, Chicago Cubs, Laurent Pernot
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With the Cubs shocking the monkey in the early going, the cry goes out: Kris Bryant for president. Or Anthony Rizzo. Or Jake Arrieta. Alas, they are all too young and, in Arrieta’s case, too bearded. We could nominate Chicago manager … Continue reading
Reno’s little helper
in sports history
Tagged baseball, drugs, Nathan Michael Corzine, sport history, Team Chemistry
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As winter turns up its final furies on the Northern Hemisphere, those snowbirds in stirrups depart for Florida and Arizona, there to prepare body and soul for the baseball season ahead. This is the time of year when baseballers get the party … Continue reading
Q&A with Team Chemistry author Nathan Michael Corzine
in american history, author commentary, authors, sports history
Tagged alcohol, baseball, baseball history, drugs, Nathan Michael Corzine, sports, Team Chemistry
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Nathan Michael Corzine is an instructor in history at Coastal Carolina Community College. He recently answered some questions about his book Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball. Q: Are there any surprises when it comes to … Continue reading