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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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The Cardinals Way: In the Spirit of Moneyball

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by Howard Megdal The Cardinals Way Prologue In working on The Cardinals Way, spending days, weeks,…
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First Baseball Strike in History: Carlton Fisk and the 1972 Red Sox

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by Doug Wilson The First Baseball Strike in History April 1, 1972 baseball owners and the…
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Split Season: Baseball’s Epic Strike of 1981

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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

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by John Klima The war years have often been characterized as a void in time where…
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What Can We Learn from Red Dead Redemption?

by Tore C. Olsson

In his new book Red Dead's History, Tore Olsson reveals the gritty and brutal world that…
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Pat Nixon and “Panda Diplomacy”

by Heath Hardage Lee

As spring came to Washington in 1972, there was little rest for…
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The Decade in Southern History that (Almost) No One Is Talking About

by Tore C. Olsson

Imagine a bookcase large enough to contain all the works ever written…
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Uncovering Stories in Small Archives

by Kathleen Sheppard

Mary Charlton Jonas (1874-1950) returned to her work at the Egypt Exploration Society’s…
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Butch Gets Busted

by Tom Clavin

This month is the 130th anniversary of when Butch Cassidy was sent to prison in Wyoming for…
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Adventure, Shipwrecks, and the History of the World

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David Gibbins's day job is anything but normal. Gibbins has worked in underwater archaeology all his…
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John Colter: The First Mountain Man?

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by Tom Clavin

One of the joys of researching and writing (with Bob Drury) Throne of…
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Army Rangers on D-Day

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by Tom Clavin

As many of you are aware, this week marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day,…
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