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Tag Archives: sports history
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
200 Years of Illinois: Of Maulers and Marines
in sports history
Tagged boxing, Jack Dempsey, Long Count, Randy Roberts, sports history
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September 22, 1927. The date of The Long Count, one of most memorable moments in the annals of pugilism. In this corner, the heavyweight champion of the world, Gene Tunney, the Fighting Marine. Opposing him: Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, … 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
Throwbacklist Thursday
in Billy Conn, biography, sports history
Tagged Beyond the Ring, Billy Conn, boxing, Friday Night Fighter, Gaspar Ortega, Jack Dempsey, John L. Sullivan, Rocky Marciano, sports history, Sweet William
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Why does Sylvester Stallone wanna make more Rocky Movies? Because he can’t sing or dance. Also, Rocky movies usually strike money. (Not that everyone is a fan.) Creed, the most recent entry in the forty-year old (!) franchise, raked in plenty of … Continue reading
History on ice
in sports history, women's history
Tagged figure skating, Figure Skating in the Formative Years, James R. Hines, Lidwina, sports history
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June 3, or Wednesday if you please, marked the beginning of a sacred holiday. No, not the birthday of Anderson Cooper. June 3 saw the first game in the ritual-rich battle for a thyroidal Canadian tsotchke called the Stanley Cup. Hockey teams … Continue reading
The cardboard of spring
in new books, sports history
Tagged baseball, baseball cards, Marvin Miller, Marvin Miller Baseball Revolutionary, Robert F. Burk, sports history
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Baseball cards once provided a beloved adjunct to the National Pastime, one that really formed a brick in that ivy-covered wall we call the Zeitgeist. In those bygone days, the young and young at heart emptied the piggy bank in anticipation … Continue reading
