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Allen Iverson: Pound for Pound
by Michael Eric Dyson
For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent…
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Here’s the Catch: Pathway to the Majors
by Ron Swoboda
By Ron Swoboda In Here's the Catch, right fielder Ron Swoboda tells the story of the…
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Wild Bill: Baseball “Player”
by Tom Clavin
With Major League Baseball emerging from its winter slumber, fans tend to acknowledge…
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Pop Warner and the World’s First Indoor Professional Football Tournament
by Steve Sheinkin After four seasons at the Carlisle Indian School, Pop Warner was already considered…
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Best Arnold Palmer Quotes of All Time
The best Arnold Palmer quotes originated from the player's incredible social impact on golf, perhaps unrivaled…
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The NY Giants Deals That Never Were: Trump, Taylor & Schnellenberger
by Jerry Barca In early December 1984, two days after the NY Giants lost their tenth…
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Ron Darling: Game 7, 1986
by Ron Darling with Daniel Paisner Game 7, 1986: Be careful what you wish for This…
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Split Season: Baseball’s Epic Strike of 1981
by Jeff Katz Those who think Major League Baseball is simply about the play on the…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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Edith Wharton’s Guide to New York
by Mariah Fredericks
Mariah Fredericks's new novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton through…
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