Tag: new york

• 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

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• 1919 May Day bomb plot helped spur 1920’s deadly Wall St. blast – New York Daily News

  1919 May Day bomb plot helped spur 1920’s deadly Wall St. blast – New York Daily News — Read on www.google.com/amp/s/www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/1919-day-bomb-plot-helped-spur-1920-deadly-wall-st-blast-article-1.145630?outputType=amp

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  19 Feb 2019

  history

  history, new york

• Two Who Did Not Return

  Two Who Did Not Return — Read on www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/sports/baseball/remembering-the-major-leaguers-who-died-in-world-war-ii.amp.html

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  18 Feb 2019

  baseball, Baseball History, history, sports

  baseball, history, new york, politics, sports, war, World War II