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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, December 19, 2025

The Natural: Honoring Robert Redford, Eddie Waitkus, and the Sandlots of Cambridge

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My favorite movie theater, The Brattle  (Cambridge, MA), holds a special place in movie history thanks to their deep well of cinema knowledg...
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Saturday, August 24, 2024

"It's a Nice Night for an Evening" -- 2024 Oldtime Baseball in Cambridge, MA

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My high school friend Max, a youthful  Steven Wright of our Seattle classroom, often said things like, "it's a nice night for an e...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

"Baseball in the Berkshires" exhibit in Lee, MA (July to August 2023)

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A long chain of events, fortunate and unfortunate, led me to factory outlet shopping in Lee, MA, over the weekend. I parked our car and turn...
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Monday, July 17, 2023

1935 Goudey Big League Gum baseball: over the border line (for the SABR Baseball Cards blog)

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Intro for my latest at the SABR Baseball Cards blog I enjoy picking apart hard-to-explain details of vintage cards to see where that journey...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Where did 1933 Big League Gum #106 Nap Lajoie come from?

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Introduction Welcome to another article about Goudey Gum and its 1930s business choices! They continue to fascinate me as an American compan...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

1954 Bowman Baseball : Memo to The Man

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How I got here Somewhere in the middle of SABR's Cardboard Crosswalk article about 1954 Bowman and 1954 Topps baseball sets, I flippe...
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