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Ball Night '95: The Last Forfeit in Baseball History
Giving away baseballs worked great for the Dodgers, until the fans started giving them back.
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Never Late for Supper - Part 2 of 2
Once the players’ strike ended, Dick Allen began an MVP season, found a measure of peace, and brought thrills to Chicago.
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The Baseball Strike of 1972
Dick Allen’s White Sox debut was pushed back by the first players’ strike in American sports history.
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Never Late for Supper - Part 1
In the early years of his career, Dick Allen quickly made a name for himself, but the world had other ideas.
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The Old Slow-Ball
On baseball's 1940s barnstorming circuit, an unassuming hero put on a one-man clinic that we're still talking about today.
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The Seattle Mariners Go Thrifting
After their clubhouse was burgled in 1981, the team patched together a one-night-only uniform.
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A Spring Training Story: The Three-Ball Walk
In 1971, Charles O. Finley, baseball’s master disrupter, changed the rules and clogged the bases.
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Project 3.18
Project 3.18
Remembering when baseball didn’t go as planned, and discovering history and culture through the window of the National Game.
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