Tag: Hollywood

• Film as History: Baseball Style

  

  How many times have you heard the expression “the book is always better than the movie?” For us book and film lovers, we hear it all the time. Very rarely do I watch a film and think to myself, that was better than the book. In fact, about 95% of the time I have read…

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  3 Jun 2020

  history

  baseball, books, Chicago, cultural history, film history, history, Hollywood, Houston, mlb, movies, new york, pop culture, world series

• 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

• How to watch every Marvel Cinematic Universe film in the right order – CNET

  Don’t just watch them chronologically, trust us. — Read on www.cnet.com/pictures/watch-every-marvel-cinematic-universe-movie-in-the-right-order-before-captain-marvel/15/

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  27 Apr 2019

  history

  1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, black panther, books, captain America, comics, fiction, Hollywood, hulk, ironman, marvel, movies, television, Thor