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The Mysteries of Hoboken
“ELYSIAN FIELDS” OF YEARS AGO — Famous Pleasure Ground in Hoboken, Where Many Generations of New-Yorkers Took Their Outings.Continue reading on Our Game »
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Dick Thorn
Not a relative, but I wish he were: Dick Thorn, pitcher with the Gotham Base Ball Club of New York in the 1850s. (Richard Thorn was…Continue reading on Our Game »
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The Functions of Each Defensive Player
In our era of ever improving defense and metrics, this 1860 view of the demands on each position provides deep context.Continue reading on Our Game »
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Jim Bouton: An Improvisational Life
I first met Jim Bouton in April 2004. What brought us together at the Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack, New Jersey was an ESPN mock…Continue reading on Our Game »
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Bats, Balls and Mallets
Concerning the Implements of Baseball — Facts, Figures, and Fancies About the Trade — Neglected Cricket and Fascinating Croquet — Games…Continue reading on Our Game »
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History and Advocacy
Back in 2002, my dear departed friend Fred Ivor-Campbell wrote to the listserv of SABR’s 19th Century Baseball Research Committee. Newer…Continue reading on Our Game »
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Charlie Comiskey
This story by Harvey T. Woodruff, originally headed “Comiskey Plans World Tour,” ran in the Chicago Tribune in 1913.Continue reading on Our Game »
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What’s a Delill?
The Cincinnati Times Star of Thursday, October 19, 1939 has a story headed “DAUGHTER RECOGNIZES HER FATHER IN PICTURE OF FIRST TEAM…Continue reading on Our Game »
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The Cost of Baseball
Pity the poor magnate; his lot is not a happy one. This story by Ring Lardner, with its invaluable accounting of the perilous economics of…Continue reading on Our Game »
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A Baseball Story for MLK Day
The Kansas City Monarchs, “World’s Colored Champions,” played more games on the barnstorming circuit than in the Negro National League. Like Rube Foster’s Cuban X-Giants three decades earlier, they...
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On the Polo Grounds: When Fans Were Fans
Opening Day at at the original Polo Grounds, Fifth Avenue and 110th StreetMy friend Richard Hershberger called this antique article to my attention the other day, as he does every now and then. (Six...
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The Batter’s Soliloquy
Almost five years ago I published a post at Our Game titled “Bard at the Bat” (https://goo.gl/x7Wtx3), consisting of Henry Chadwick’s…Continue reading on Our Game »
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Forget the Super Bowl; spring training is around the corner.Continue reading on Our Game »
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The Black Sox: You Are There
These reports from the Chicago Tribune commence in October 1919, just as some in the press had begun to catch a whiff of what was happening…Continue reading on Our Game »
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Baseball Girl in Japan
Yesterday, while looking for something else, I spotted this fine photograph at the Library of Congress site [https://goo.gl/E5uiiZ]/.Continue reading on Our Game »
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Happy Birthday, Sultan of Swat
Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, the Beatified Bambino, the Paul Bunyan of Baseball. Had he not lived, we would have had to make him up. The…Continue reading on Our Game »
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A Game of Bace
That’s not a typo in the headline. Walt Whitman wrote, in 1846, “In our sundown perambulations of late through the outer parts of Brooklyn…Continue reading on Our Game »
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Love and Baseball
My friend Tom Shieber wrote a great story for Valentine’s Day last year: “Baseball, Valentine’s Day, and Music” (https://goo.gl/VwOB3U)…Continue reading on Our Game »
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The New York Clipper and Sporting Weeklies of Its Time
The New York Clipper, founded in 1853, was not America’s first sporting paper.Continue reading on Our Game »
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