Today is August 3, 2016. Travel back with me to this day in 1921. We’re in Chicago, maybe enjoying a little prohibition-style bathtub gin because the mood here is festive following the acquittal of eight Chicago White Sox players indicted on conspiracy charges for their role in the 1919 World Series scandal. But the mood is about to change as word spreads that Federal Judge and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis has laid a lifetime ban on all eight men.

Today is August 2, 2016. Travel back with me to this day in 1938. We’re in Brooklyn at Ebbets Field where we’ll watch a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals, and where Dodger’s General Manager Larry MacPhail will introduce a specially dyed batch of bright yellow baseballs in an effort to spice up the game.

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Today is August 1, 2016. Travel back with me to this day in 1985. We’re in Chicago where the Cardinals are playing the Cubs at Wrigley Field, and where Cardinals rookie Vince Coleman will set the rookie stolen base record with his 73rd stolen base of the season.

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