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If you want to know whether gambling is worse for baseball than steroids, ask Taiwan — MAD EM-DASHES
I am going to write about this very topic in my dissertation. It’s a fascinating comparative study in how the two biggest vices in the history of the game have affected the public’s confidence. If you want to know whether gambling is worse for baseball than steroids, ask Taiwan — MAD EM-DASHES — Read on…
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Rest in Peace Uncle Bobby
Growing up a baseball fan and watching the playoffs on those cool, crisp, October Houston evenings (by the time October came around and the temperature gauge dipped below 100, any evening where the temperature was in the low 80s and upper 70s was cool and crisp) I often would see a highlight of Bobby Thomson’s dramatic homerun in…
Joe Thompson, PhD. 