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Jackie Robinson: Shaking the Foundation
by Kostya Kennedy
True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson is a probing,…
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Calling All Baseball Fans: Books to Read for Opening Day
by The History Reader
Major League Baseball’s Opening Day has long been a symbol of rebirth…
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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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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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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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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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