Aug 26, 2024
The date: June 14,
1974
The place: Cleveland's venerable
Municipal Stadium
The event: an evening
regular-season game between MLB's Cleveland Indians & Texas
Rangers
The added attraction: "Ten Cent
Beer Night"
The result: one of baseball
history's (and American sports') most notorious promotional
fiascos
Aug 19, 2024
We raise our sports history IQ a
few points this week with an enlightening conversation around the
broader cultural importance and underlying social significance of
the very venues in which our favorite games are played - with
Columbia University professor Frank Guridy
("The
Stadium: An American History
of...
Aug 12, 2024
Buckle up for a wild ride
through some of the most forgotten franchises in recent minor
league hockey history - with a colorful lifer who literally fought
his way to becoming the NHL's oldest (32) opening-day rookie
(with the Boston Bruins), only to see it all fall apart to a
concussion after just three games.
Aug 5, 2024
We head back to the diamond this
week for a look into the "extraordinarily ordinary" baseball life
of 1950s-era infielder Danny
O'Connell with biographer
Wiegand's story is...