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First Baseball Strike in History: Carlton Fisk and the 1972 Red Sox
by Doug Wilson The First Baseball Strike in History April 1, 1972 baseball owners and the…
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5 Little-Known Facts about the History of California Wine
by Frances Dinkelspiel 1) The Franciscan Fathers of Baja California The Franciscan fathers were the first…
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The End of Memory: Understanding the Spread Alzheimer’s
by Jay Ingram Chapter 10 - A Deadly Progression The prospect of slowing, interrupting or even…
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NASL Soccer – The Rock ‘N’ Roll Years of the Minnesota Kicks
by Ian Plenderleith NASL Soccer Everyone knows that the New York Cosmos was the baest, sexiest…
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Behind The Mask: Vita Sackville-West
by Matthew Dennison Every Tolkien fan remembers Lobelia Sackville-Baggins. Rapacious, uppity, with a formidable temper and…
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Bulls Before Breakfast: The Pamplona Bull Run
by Peter N. Milligan I run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, in the summertime with…
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Mark Kram: “Lawdy Lawdy He’s Great”
by Mark Kram “Lawdy Lawdy He’s Great” – (Ali Frazier III) Sports Illustrated Oct 13, 1975…
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Hemingway and Cuba: Through the Smoke of a 102-year-old’s Cigar
by Brin-Jonathan Butler Gregorio Fuentes, the model for Hemingway’s humble Santiago in The Old Man and…
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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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The Game Must Go On: The Great Days of Baseball During WWII
by John Klima The war years have often been characterized as a void in time where…
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Cultural History
Charles Sumner Witnesses the “Abraham Lincoln Magic”
by Stephen Puleo
In April 1865, at General Ulysses S. Grant’s Headquarters at City Point, Virginia,…
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The Wreck of USS Monitor
by David Gibbins
Almost half of the ships that I cover in my book, A History…
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America’s Most Clandestine Military Unit
Adam Gamal (a pseudonym created to keep his family safe from harm) served in the most…
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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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