The Library of Congress Has an Incredible Collection of Early Baseball Cards
(via Atlas Obscura) There’s a lot of history in these collectibles.
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The Library of Congress Has an Incredible Collection of Early Baseball Cards
(via Atlas Obscura) There’s a lot of history in these collectibles.
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Seventy-Five Years Ago, Women’s Baseball Players Took the Field
(via Smithsonian) An Indiana slugger was one of the athletes who “hit the dirt in the skirt” and changed Americans’
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Why It’s Almost Impossible for Fastballs to Get Any Faster
(via Wired) A wickedly fast fastball isn’t the anomaly it once was. A decade ago, Major League pitchers threw a
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10 of the Most Valuable Baseball Cards in the World
(via Mental Floss) If baseball is America’s national pastime, then collecting baseball cards is a close second. But not all of
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The Origins of All 30 Major League Baseball Team Names
(via Mental Floss) With the Major League Baseball season getting underway, here’s the breakdown of how the league’s 30 teams
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Baseball’s first stolen base exploited a loophole in the rulebook
(via SB Nation) Before the National League and the American League came together to form the MLB, baseball had some
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Korean Baseball 101: Way Beyond the Bat Flips
(via Great Big Story) Baseball in South Korea is more than a game. American missionaries first brought the sport to
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What’s the Longest Possible Home Run?
(via Popular Mechanics) Home runs have soared out of baseball parks at a historic rate in 2017, as MLB hitters
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Inside One of Baseball’s Last Manual Scoreboards
(via Great Big Story) As one of the oldest ballparks in the major leagues, Wrigley Field is a love letter
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September 28, 1941 -Ted Williams becomes last MLB player to hit .400
(via History) On this day in 1941, the Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics
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The ‘Most Popular Baseball Card Ever’ Is Going to Auction
(via Atlas Obscura) It is not especially valuable by the standards of old baseball cards, but a vintage “pasteboard” depicting
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