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Showing posts with label Kevin Baker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin Baker. Show all posts
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Quote of the Day (Kevin Baker, on the First Baseball Parks, in the Cities)

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“The first major-league parks, back in the nineteenth century, were little more than sandlots with rows of precarious wooden bleachers...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Quote of the Day (Kevin Baker, on the Plight of the Demographically Deluded Dems)

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“Today’s Democratic Party, with its finely calibrated, top-down fixes, does not offer anything so transformative [as the rural electrif...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

This Day in Baseball History (“Bonehead” Merkle Becomes Giant Scapegoat)

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September 23, 1908—In one of the most contentious plays in the history of the national pastime, 19-year-old New York Giant Fred Merkle fail...
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I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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