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Eight Men Out

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Both a movie and a book about the 1919 World Series Black Sox scandal

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Eddie Cicotte

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Pitcher for the White Sox who resisted throwing games but ultimately gave in to the 1919 Black Sox scandal

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Buck Weaver

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Third baseman for the White Sox controversially banned for the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Although he played he was banned for having knowledge of the plan and not reporting it.

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Chick Gandil

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First baseman for the White Sox and the main contact for gamblers setting up the 1919 Black Sox scandal

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Charles Comiskey

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Owner of the Chicago White Sox know for being a stingy owner which probably contributed to his players consipring to thow the 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal).

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Arnold Rothstein

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Gambler largely suspected but never proven to be the brains behind the 1919 Black Sox scandal

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"Shoeless" Joe Jackson

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Outfielder for the White Sox banned for the Black Sox scandal. He is widely believed to be innocent and people work to prove his innocence and get him in tot he hall of fame to this day.

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Pete Rose

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Baseball player turned manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Was permanently put on baseball's ineligible list for placing bets on the Reds winning while he was manager

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Bernard Malamud

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Wrote the baseball novel The Natural which was adapted to a film

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Roy Hobbs

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The main character of The Natural by Bernard Malamud. In the tory he is a gifted baseball player

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The Natural

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Baseball novel by Bernard Malamud about a gifted baseball player named Roy Hobbs

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He Got Game (title)

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Spike Lee film about a gifted African American basketball player who everyone around him trying to influence his college choice for their own personal reasons

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W.P. Kinsella

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Wrote the novel Shoeless Joe which was adapted to the film Field of Dreams

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Field of Dreams (title)

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Film adaptation of W.P. Kinsella's book Shoeless Joe. The main character Ray Kinsella who builds a baseball field which connects to spirits of the the players banned in the Black Sox scandal plus his father

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Jack Johnson

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First African American world heavyweight boxing champion

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Tex Richards

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Captain of Univeristy of Pittsburgh Panthers football team from where in 1910 where they were undefeated and unscored upon

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Jack Dempsey

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World Heavyweight Champion Boxer Involved in 'The Long Count' to reclaim his title from Tunney. The referee had to escort Dempsey to the neutral corner, which bought Tunney at least an extra five seconds to recover

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Gene Tunney

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Beat Jack Dempsey for the Heavyweight Boxing title and in the rematch went down in 'The Long Count' where he had an extra 5 seconds to recover and ended up beating Dempsey

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Jesse Owens

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Black track and field athlete who won multiple gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games hosted by Nazi Germany

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Joe Louis

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Black Heavyweight boxing champ who was seen as a hero by most of America helping to break down color barriers

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Jackie Robinson

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First African American to play in Major League Baseball. First base for the Dodgers

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Branch Rickey

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n American baseball player and sports executive. He was perhaps best known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barriers by signing black player Jackie Robinson, as well as for creating the framework for the modern minor league farm system

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Muhammed Ali

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American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. He is nicknamed "The Greatest

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Harry Edwards

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Organized the black power salute at the 1968 Olympics for black athletes to protest the fact that they are representing a country they are not treated equally in

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Stacking (racial stacking)

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The idea that people of certain races were better at certain positions. A key example of this would be in football where quarterbacks were often deemed the 'thinking' role and was given mainly to white men

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Michael Jordan

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Black American professional basketball athlete that is one of the most widely recognized names worldwide

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Eleonora Sears

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an American tennis champion who pushed the envelope of what a woman was allowed to do or could be good at. One of the first American women to drive or fly a plane.

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Mary Outerbridge

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was an American woman who imported the lawn game tennis to the United States from Bermuda.

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Senda Berenson

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'Mother of Women's Basketball' was the first person to introduce and adapt rules for women's basketball to Smith College in 1899, modifying the existing men's rules.

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Gertrude Ederle

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an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in five events. She became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

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Suzanne Lenglen

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Champion tennis player and was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars

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Babe Didrickson

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American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball and track and field. She won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics, before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships

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Billie Jean King

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an American former World No.1 professional tennis player. Also known for beating Bobby Riggs in the 'Battle of the Sexes'

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Bobby Riggs

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was an American tennis champion who was the World No. 1 who is also known for challenging and losing to Billie Jean King in the 'Battle of the Sexes'

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Title IX

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prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity that is federally funded. Really set up a requirement for female funded sports in schools

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Besuboru

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Japanese pronunciation of baseball which is played as one of the biggest sports in Japan

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Sadaharu Oh

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Retired Japanese-born Chinese baseball player and manager. Oh holds the world lifetime home run record

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Ichiro

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In 2001, Ichiro became the first Japanese-born position player to be posted and signed to an MLB club.

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Wally Yonamine

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Hawaii born 2 sport star. The first football player of Japanese American ancestry to play professional football. In baseball, Yonamine was the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II

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Shamateurism

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Treating athlete as an amateur to compete in amateur competition while subsidizing them with illegal payments or with excessive expense money

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Pierre de Coubertin

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Considered one of the fathers of the modern Olympic Games. Idealized the Olympic Games as the ultimate ancient athletic competition

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Revived olympic games

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Modern revival of the Olympic games seen as a way of uniting world powers. First modern Games in Athens in 1896

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Jim Thorpe

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Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States.

He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateurism rules (they were reinstated 30 years after his death)

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Leni Riefenstahl

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German actor and film maker who made propaganda films for the Nazi and pushed technical bounds of film making while filming the 1936 Olympic games for a film called Olympia

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American Dream Team

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1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team was the first American Olympic team to feature active professional players from the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team has been described by American journalists as the greatest sports team ever assembled.

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Alaia and olo

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Two types of surfboards olo boards were much longer and reserved for the chiefs. while the Alaia were more maneuverable

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George Freeth

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"Father of Modern Surfing" Freeth was born in Oahu and Henry Huntington brought him to California where he introduced surfing and was a great lifeguard

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Tom Blake

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Californian passionate for surfing who became very influential by experimenting and advancing surfboard design

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Duke Kahanamoku

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Olympic swimmer and surfer The Duke helped popularize surfing and was an ambassador for Hawaii

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Prince Kuhio and his two twin brothers (the Three Hawaiian Princes)

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While attending St. Matthew’s Hall, a military academy in San Mateo the Hawaiian royalty brought their surfing with them to California and their Olo boards

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Outrigger Canoe Club

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Started as a mostly white surfing club

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Hui Nalo

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Started out as a predominately Hawaiian surf club basically as a response to the Outrigger Canoe Club

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Hõlua sled

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Basically land surfing was a chief activity in which the chief would sled down the mountain

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Big Bill Tilden

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American tennis player, he was the first American to win Wimbledon in 1920. He also won a record seven U.S. Championships titles.

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Francis Ouimet

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was an American amateur golfer who is frequently referred to as the "father of amateur golf"

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Walter Hagen

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was an American professional golfer and a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century

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Bobby Jones

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most successful amateur golfer ever to compete at a national and international level and co-founded the Masters Tournament

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Arnold Palmer

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Nicknamed The King, he was one of golf's most popular stars and seen as a trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.

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Televised sports

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beginning in the 1950s the way sports was viewed changed. previously it was seen in person, commented on over the radio, written about or watched in a film later.

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Roone Arledge

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was an American sports and news broadcasting executive. He created many programs still airing today, such as Monday Night Football

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Monday Night Football

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ESPN Monday Night Football, a livetelevision broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States

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Wide World of Sports

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American sports anthology television program that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) primarily on Saturday afternoons

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Howard Cosell

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an American sports journalist and author, who was prominent and influential on radio, television and print media from the early 1960s into the mid 1980s

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ESPN

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Entertainment and Sports Programming Network is a U.S.-based pay television sports channel. ESPN is one of the most successful sports networks.

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Pete Rozelle

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Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle was an American businessman and executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in November 1989.

He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world

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Super Bowl

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The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) where the champion of the National Football Conference (NFC) competes against the champion of the American Football Conference(AFC). The game is the culmination of a regular season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year

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David Stern

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David Joel Stern is an American businessman and lawyer who served as the fourth commissioner of the National Basketball Association , succeeding Larry O'Brien. He is credited with increasing the popularity of the NBA in the 1990s and 2000s

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Tim Green

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Timothy John Green (born December 16, 1963) is a retired professional American football player, a radio and television personality, and a best-selling author. He was a linebacker and defensive end with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League, a commentator for National Public Radio, and the former host of the 2005 revival of A Current Affair on Fox

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The Dark Side of the Game (title)

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The Dark Side of the Game: My Life in the NFL, written by TIM GREEN. In this book, 8-year veteran of the NFL Tim Green reveals for the first time the scandals, the horrors, the abuses and also the wonders of playing football.

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"Life on the Interstate"

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Reserve clause

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part of a player contract which stated the rights to players were retained by the team upon the contract's expiration. Players under these contracts were not free to enter into another contract with another team. Once signed to a contract, players could, at the team's whim, be reassigned, traded, sold, or released.

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Free agency

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a free agent is a player who is eligible to freely sign with any club or franchise; i.e., not under contract to any specific team

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Curt Flood

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an american baseball player. Center fielder--15 seasons in the major leagues for Cincinnati Redlegs, St. Louis Cardinals, and Washington Senators.

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Marvin Miller

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an American baseball executive who served as the Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association(MLBPA) from 1966 to 1982. Under Miller's direction, the players' union was transformed into one of the strongest unions in the United States

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Bowie Kuhn

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fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969, to September 30, 1984. Ended reserve claus! Kuhn was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.

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Damon Runyon

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Alfred Damon Runyo was an American newspaperman and short-story writer. Runyon was also a well-known newspaper reporter, covering sports and general news for decades for various publications and syndicates owned by William Randolph Hearst.

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Ring Lardner

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Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner. In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by "Jack Keefe", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home .

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Jack Keefe (the Busher of 'You Know Me Al')

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He begins the book as a minor leaguer in Terre Haute, Indiana who gets accepted by the big leagues to pitch for the Chicago White Sox, circa 1914. In his barely literate letters home to his friend Al, he details his first experiences in the big leagues, which ends in disaster as he pitches poorly and gets sent back down to the minors again.

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James Thurber

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James Grover Thurber His 1941 story "You Could Look It Up", about a three-foot adult being brought in to take a walk in a baseball game, is said to have inspired Bill Veeck's stunt with Eddie Gaedel with the St. Louis Browns in 1951

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Bill Veeck

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lso known as "Sport Shirt" was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Owned Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox.

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Eddie Gaedel

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the shortest (3'7'') player to appear in a Major League Baseball game.

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Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"

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"the single most famous baseball poem ever written", written June 3, 1888

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Robert Francis' "Catch," "The Base Stealer," and "Pitcher"

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American Poet (1901-1987)

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Steroids scandal

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Fantasy sports

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In fantasy sports, team owners draft, trade and cut (drop) players, analogously to real sports.

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Eddie Waitkus

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was a Lithuanian Americanfirst baseman in Major League Baseball. Played for Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies in the National League and the Baltimore Orioled in the American League.

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Rotisserie League Baseball

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scoring system was developed independently and popularized in the 1980s [fantasy baseball]

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George Plimpton

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Plimpton was famous for competing in professional sporting events and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur

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The Rumble in the Jungle

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was a historic boxing event in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) on October 30, 1974

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George Foreman

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Big George", he is a two-time world heavy weight champion and an Olympic gold medalist.

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Larry King

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he hosted a sports talk-show called "Sports-a-la-King" that featured guests and callers. Larry King At Bat" series on SportsNet LA