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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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George Whiteman and the 1918 World Series
by Glenn Stout George Whiteman: September 11, 1918 In the eighth inning of the sixth and…
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The Cardinals Way: In the Spirit of Moneyball
by Howard Megdal The Cardinals Way Prologue In working on The Cardinals Way, spending days, weeks,…
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Ben Mankiewicz: “If Your Last Name Is Mankiewicz”
by Ben Mankiewicz Writing about my father should be easy. But it isn’t. Writing is supposed…
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Bill Veeck and the Chicago White Sox
by Dan Epstein Excerpt From Chapter 1: Let's Do It Again (Bill Veeck) Bill Veeck buys…
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Hemingway and La Feria de San Fermín
by A.E. Hotchner In the spring of 1948, I was dispatched to Havana on the ridiculous…
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Dickensian London: Everyday Life in the Victorian City
by Judith Flanders Chapter 1: Easy to Rise - Coffee in Covent Garden Market It is…
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Yes and No: My Own Tale of the Ouija Board
by Roger Clarke One thing I never really covered in my book Ghosts: A Natural History…
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Coach Chuck Klausing: Football in the Shadow of Paul Brown
by Greg Nichols Chapter 1: In the Shadow of Paul Brown From a distance, the corrugated…
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Paul Rosenberg: A Family Memoir of Art and War
by Anne Sinclair; Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside Paul Rosenburg Rue la Boétie Number…
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Cultural History
Feathered Fighters
by Tom Clavin
67 years ago, the U.S. Army Pigeon Service closed. You might think that…
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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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