Cubs Win! The Crazy 1908 Season

Cubs Win! The Crazy 1908 Season

  If you were among the millions who watched the dramatic seventh game of the World Series last year, you might have come away thinking you saw the greatest game of all time. The game was a nail-biter, as the Chicago Cubs finally won their first World Series...

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Safe at Home

Safe at Home

With a portrait of Abraham Lincoln looking on, Jackie Robinson sat at the mahogany desk across from Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. “Do you know why you were brought here?” Rickey asked Robinson, according to Arnold...

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Brad Pitt, Take Notice

Brad Pitt, Take Notice

Sky Andrecheck's field of dreams is more like a field of data. His specialty is known as "sabermetrics"--the study of baseball using data popularized by the best-selling book, Moneyball, and the movie by the same name starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. In Moneyball,...

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Baseball, 1860 Style

Baseball, 1860 Style

Whenever I came off the field after a day playing vintage baseball, my hands were often stinging something fierce. That's because we played by 1860 rules, which meant NO GLOVES. And since I played third base for the Danville Voles, I sometimes had to field a sharp...

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The Last Cubs Championship

The Last Cubs Championship

It Took One of the Craziest Games of All Time   With baseball's All-Star game just around the corner, I can't resist a bit of baseball history--one of the most bizarre games in the long history of the game. I am a White Sox fan, but this game involved the...

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History by the Slice