Tag: 1950s

• Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) Houston Chapter June Meeting Recap

  

  Hello everyone, The Youtube video for the June 15, 2020 meeting is now available! The video is located on the SABR Houston Larry Dierker Chapter channel. Please subscribe to our channel if you have not done so already. I will be asking members soon to post videos or other exciting stuff to the channel. Here…

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  25 Jun 2020

  history

  1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Astros, baseball, history, Houston, mlb, SABR, sports

• The Space Race

  Beginning in the mid-1950s, the Space Race produced two decades of US-Soviet rivalry as the two superpowers strove to claim mastery of space exploration. — Read on alphahistory.com/coldwar/space-race/

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  29 May 2019

  history, travel

  1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, books, history, movies, politics, space, television, World War II

• The dark side: The secret world of sports doping | News | Al Jazeera

  I’m currently reading Eddie Dominguez’s book about baseball’s drug problems in the years following the Mitchell Report. In the book, Baseball Cop: The Dark Side of America’s Pastime, Dominguez talks about his life and baseball’s unresolved drug issues. He kept mentioning ‘the documentary’ where he appeared. After a little digging (took me less than a…

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  18 May 2019

  baseball, Baseball History, history, sports

  1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, alcohol, Baltimore, baseball, books, Boston, Chicago, drugs, Florida, gambling, giants, history, Hollywood, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, mlb, movies, national baseball hall of fame, New England, new york, PED, Pittsburgh, Royals, sports, steroids, technology, television, Texas