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Teaser answer: He was a superb athlete but native to another country! Find out who as author Scott Ellsworth reads from The Secret Game: A Wartime ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Find out the astonishing answer as author James Baehler reads from his new book, Unbreakable: The 25 Most Unapproachable Records in Baseball. (Emai...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
American turn-of-the-20th century author Jack London was one of the founders of serious American sport fiction. Stemming from his own love of spor...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 1
Spitball in the Hands of Hostile Hurler is Vicious and Baffling.
From the July 18, 1912 edition of The Washington Herald.
- Added: Jul 18, 2012
- Length: 02:09
James Thorpe Wins Decathlon, and America Lands the 1,600-Meter Event.
FIVE STRAIGHT VICTORIES
From the July 16, 1912 edition of The Washington He...
- Added: Jul 15, 2012
- Length: 03:59
Penny Marshall's film brings awareness and respect for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943-1954.
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Feb 04, 2012
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
For more than fifty years ... an unbroken streak of more than 4500 games, Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. As Reggie Jackson said, "t...
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 03:00
He was a runner, early on. Before it was popular. Before Spandex, before Nike and Gatorade. At one time, he was one of a handful of the fastest hum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00