Tag: Bad News Bears

• SI Vault: A new twist on Casey at the Bat. By Frank Deford | SI.com

  From the SI Vault: On the 100th anniversary of Casey at the Bat, Frank Deford imagined what really might have happened in the days before and after Ernest L. Thayer’s famous 1888 baseball poem. — Read on www.si.com/mlb/2015/06/02/casey-bat-mudville-frank-deford

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  24 Aug 2018

  history

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• Baseball Researcher: A Nineteenth Century Performance-Enhancing Drug?

  Baseball Researcher: A Nineteenth Century Performance-Enhancing Drug? — Read on baseballresearcher.blogspot.com/2010/12/nineteenth-century-performance.html

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  8 Aug 2018

  history

  1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, alcohol, Astros, Bad News Bears, Baltimore, baseball, blog, books, Boston, Branch Rickey, casey at the bat, Celtics, Chicago, Cleveland, comedy, cooperstown, demon, Detroit, Disco, drugs, ernest thayer, evil monkeys, fiction, football, funny stories, gambling, giants, Halloween, history, Hollywood, horror, Houston, Indians, knights, Larry Bird, Los Angeles, mlb, movies, national baseball hall of fame, new york, no respect, orioles, Pirates, Pittsburgh, rock, Rodney Dangerfield, SABR, seattle, sports, Steelers, stephen king, tales, television, Tigers, video games, Washington DC

• Happy International Beer Day

  

  Courtesy of Dan Epstein, author of the grooviest and funkiest baseball history Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funny Ride through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s. In honor of International Beer Day and the impending weekend: Here’s a lobby card from the best baseball film ever made, showing Morris Buttermaker and the Bad…

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  3 Aug 2018

  history

  1970s, 1980s, alcohol, Bad News Bears, baseball, blog, books, Disco, drugs, football, funny stories, history, Hollywood, Los Angeles, mlb, movies, rock, sports, television