Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar, and the Baltimore Ravens - Episode 55

Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe was a superb athlete?  That's right.  When Princeton University finished the 1889 season with a perfect 10-0 record, the team's star player, Edgar Allan Poe was named the quarterback of America's very first All-American Team.

The story is true.  That's because Princeton's star quarterback in 1889 was named after his famous second cousin, twice removed, the celebrated author Edgar Allan Poe.  The latter having passed away forty years before Princeton's talented quarterback engineered that perfect 10-0 season.

Stories from History’s Dust Bin is a 3-volume set of historical short stories.  These are the nuggets of gold that had fallen by the wayside… the little known and unusual.  Many of these gems were destined to be forever lost until they were collected, dusted off and brought back to life by author Wayne Winterton.

Each podcast episode features one of over 450 short stories from either Winterton’s Award-Winning Stories from Dust Bin series* or the companion volume, From Ace to Zamboni: 101 More Dust Bin Stories, as narrated by either the author or his son, William, or daughter, Jana.

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