Today is January 14, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1976. Today we’re taking our baseball time machine to Atlanta, where we’ll see an enthusiastic Ted Turner announce that he’s purchased the struggling Braves, a move that will usher in a generation of on-field success and a national broadcasting revolution.

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Today is January 13, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1958. Today we’re going back to a couple simultaneous turning points for professional baseball; the emergence of national television broadcasts, which opened new doors and revenue streams for Major League teams, and what many at the time believed to be the death knell for the minor league system. We’ll join the minor league owners and a congressman fighting on their behalf to curtail the power of MLB’s unwritten anti-trust exemption, and, spoiler alert: we’ll lose.

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Today is January 12, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1988. It’s election season, baseball time travelers: Hall of Fame election season. And today we are traveling back to the close of this year’s balloting, where the final numbers will provide overwhelming joy for one man, and heartbreak for another.

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Today is January 11, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1973. We’re in Chicago and I’ve brought you all here today to sit through a seven-hour Owner’s Meeting. But don’t worry, listeners, because by the end of the day the American League will have adopted a new rule that will remain the subject of fierce debate over 40 years later.

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Today is January 10, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1983. Today we’re in the front of the New York Supreme Court as it listens to arguments from the City of New York and the New York Yankees, and makes a decision that will affect the most sacred of holidays: Opening Day of Major League Baseball.  

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Today is January 9, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1952. Today we and baseball fans everywhere will realize that the wartime era that seemingly ended with the close of World War II was merely in a short respite before igniting again with a new foe. Because today, just as in World War II, Ted Williams and many of his fellow ballplayers will again be recalled into active service.

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Today is January 8, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1990. Today we’ll open a copy of the New York Times and read an obituary a man named John Sylvester, and in the process we’ll see how a baseball legend is born, and then embellished by an overzealous press eager to cater to a hyper-sentimental baseball-loving public.

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Today is January 7, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 2005. Today we’re hanging out in the office of Red Sox owner John Henry, where he will make a phone call to former Red Sox first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz and request that Mientkiewicz return a baseball with a whole lot of sentimental value, which now happens to be sitting in a safe-deposit box in Florida.

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Today is January 5, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1920. Today we’re taking our baseball time machine to Boston, to the Carney Building, where this afternoon Red Sox owner Harry Frazee will officially announce that the destitute Red Sox have sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

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Today is January 4, 2017. Travel back with me to this day in 1943. I hope you didn’t get too comfortable at home, listeners, because just like yesterday we’re back in 1943. But today we’re leaving Red Ruffing to once again join everyone’s favorite baseball czar, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, as he reshapes baseball’s Spring Training landscape in an effort to preserve the game in wartime, and garner some good press for himself in the process.

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