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A weekly exploration of sports, history, politics, life, and culture, offering thoughtful analysis and storytelling that connects the past to the present. OPINIONS AND VIEWS ARE MY OWN.
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Baseball and 9/11 (opens the original)
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I was a senior in high school, sitting in Business Math, I woke up to word from our principal that the World Trade Center had been hit. My teacher switched on the rolling TV cart and turned to the news. We watched the second plane hit live.By midday, schools were ordered to close early. My last class was gym. Flag football, of all things. I went to school in the DMV, Montgomery County, MD to be specific. Many students in that county had parents who worked at the Pentagon. I remember looking up f
1950s–1960s All-Star Teams: National League vs. American League (opens the original)
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For the last installment I built the team baseball locked out. This one is what happened when the door finally opened and which league ran through it first.That league was the National. It signed and played Black and Latino stars faster and in greater numbers, and the result isn’t a matter of opinion. From 1950 to 1987 the National League went 33-8-1 in the All-Star Game, including a stretch where it won 19 of 20. For an entire generation, the senior circuit simply owned the sport. The reason wa
The All-Time Negro Leagues Team, Ranked by the Numbers We Finally Have (opens the original)
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1930s–1940s All-Star Teams: American League vs. National League (opens the original)
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1920s All-Star Teams: American League vs. National League (opens the original)
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