Babe Ruth was one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and in his heyday, he was one of the highest paid athletes and most famous people in the world. Nowadays, he’s the subject of Portable Press’s Show Me History: Babe Ruth, the stor...
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Baseball Slang from the Late 1800s
Hitting a dinger against the closer to get your team out of the cellar? Those baseball terms would sound like nonsense to an early baseball player in the 1860s and 1870s. And the terms they’d use to describe their fledgling sport may sound equally...
The Weirdest Named College Bowls Ever
Sponsors drop in and drop out of college football bowls, leaving some very odd official names in the sports history books. Progressive Gator Bowl (2011) The Gator Bowl has been played for decades, but in 2011 insurance company Progressive ...
The Most Disastrous Promotions in Baseball History
If you hit up a Major League Baseball game this year, be thankful if you get a free hat or bobblehead…and that it doesn’t descend into abject chaos. Ten Cent Beer Night It’s remarkable that anyone in the Cleveland Indians organizatio...
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The Players Who Played For the Most Teams
In the olden days of pro sports, most players used to stick with just one team for their whole careers. Today, though, players are more likely to be “journeymen,” or bounce around their league, playing for multiple teams. Here are the biggest jo...
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