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An instructive tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-so-clever.
Categories: Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 13, Sports & Leisure, The Quest for the Past
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Billy Sunday was America's foremost evangelist, whose admirers included young men, ex-presidents, and titans of industry... but how was his baserunning?
Categories: Biography, Series 13, Sports & Leisure
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Years before baseball played its first game under electric lights, the 1900 Philadelphia Phillies used electricity at the Baker Bowl... to steal signs.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Man's Amazing Inventions, Sports & Leisure
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It was supposed to be a celebration of sixty years of baseball... and instead, well, Philadelphia fans did what Philadelphia fans do best.
Categories: Most Popular, Series 8, Sports & Leisure
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On July 2, 1903 Washington Senators outfielder Ed Delahanty walked out of the team's hotel in Detroit and disappeared.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, Series 7, Sports & Leisure
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From the world of Dungeons & Dragons, A silly story that only gets sillier as people keep adding to it.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Sports & Leisure
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In 1982 a Baltimore hobby store gave the world a bold new innovation in dice... One that hardly anyone would use. Let's sing the praises of the mighty d30!
Categories: Man's Amazing Inventions, Series 4, Sports & Leisure
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In 1902 baseball player Nap Lajoie was prohibited by law from entering the state of Pennsylvania. How did this weird state of affairs come to pass?
Categories: Series 4, Sports & Leisure
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We've shared this on social media but not on the web site. Here it is... the first (and so far only) thing we've ever purchased off eBay.
Categories: Sports & Leisure, Supplement
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In 1910, professional hockey was in chaos and a millionaire tried to buy his way to the Stanley Cup with a team of ringers.
Categories: Series 3, Sports & Leisure
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In 1974, Herb Washington was the world's fastest human... but could he turn raw speed into a professional baseball career?
Categories: Biography, Series 2, Sports & Leisure
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He may have had the best worst nickname in baseball, but "Ugly" Johnny Dickshot was more than just a pretty face. He was also a character.
Categories: Biography, Series 1, Sports & Leisure
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