Sports Jersey Dispatch: Presented by Pigskin Dispatch

Paul Waner ranks number one on our all-time players of the MLB that wore the Number 1 on their uniform. Here are a couple of facts and stories about the legend.

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It is a real treat to have award-winning filmmaker Scott Orris join us to talk about the subject of his upcoming film Rap Dixon: Beyond Baseball and discuss the film and of course, the legendary player the film is centered on.

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Lineage Line Films on Linked In

Scott has a vintage Negro Leagues Baseball film out now that has won awards called There Were Giants and it is free to watch right now on Vimeo.

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Go to SportsHistoryNetwork.com/Row1 for access to the full Row One catalog for gallery prints and gift items. Plus, get a 15% discount on all prints on the Row One Pictorem Gallery with coupon code SHN15.

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Lionel Conacher is not a name that is unknown to those in the nation of Canada who know their history. He was known as the "Canadian Jim Thorpe" for his success as a well-rounded athlete as well as "Big Train" and “The Freight Train” by others due to his head-on approach to sports play. Conacher is what many may say a modern-day Renaissance Man, as he excelled in sports at all levels and was a political leader in the Canadian Parliament. Let us take a look and learn more about his story.

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Go to SportsHistoryNetwork.com/Row1 for access to the full Row One catalog for gallery prints and gift items. Plus, get a 15% discount on all prints on the Row One Pictorem Gallery with coupon code SHN15.

Get a free one-week subscription to Newspapers.com by visiting SportsHistoryNetwork.com/newspapers. And with a paid subscription, you’ll also be helping to support the production of this and other Sports History Network shows. 

In this episode of the Sports Jersey  Dispatch we discuss the legend and history of one of the biggest athletes in team sports. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar his story from youth to retirement is up on the podcast. 

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Go to SportsHistoryNetwork.com/Row1 for access to the full Row One catalog for gallery prints and gift items. Plus, get a 15% discount on all prints on the Row One Pictorem Gallery with coupon code SHN15.

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Let's talk a little bit about the history of numbers on the baseball uniform shall we? The Numbers are commonplace now but it wasn't always that way.

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Go to SportsHistoryNetwork.com/Row1 for access to the full Row One catalog for gallery prints and gift items. Plus, get a 15% discount on all prints on the Row One Pictorem Gallery with coupon code SHN15.

Get a free one-week subscription to Newspapers.com by visiting SportsHistoryNetwork.com/newspapers. And with a paid subscription, you’ll also be helping to support the production of this and other Sports History Network shows. 

Up until a few years ago I thought I knew who invented each of the three major American Sports. That came crashing down on my head when I found out that I was told incorrectly in school about the inventor of baseball. It is my mission to get to the bottom of this.

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Go to SportsHistoryNetwork.com/Row1 for access to the full Row One catalog for gallery prints and gift items. Plus, get a 15% discount on all prints on the Row One Pictorem Gallery with coupon code SHN15.

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The origin story of the Atlanta Braves takes us on a journey through three cities and over a century and a half of legendary baseball.

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Go to SportsHistoryNetwork.com/Row1 for access to the full Row One catalog for gallery prints and gift items. Plus, get a 15% discount on all prints on the Row One Pictorem Gallery with coupon code SHN15.

Get a free one-week subscription to Newspapers.com by visiting SportsHistoryNetwork.com/newspapers. And with a paid subscription, you’ll also be helping to support the production of this and other Sports History Network shows. 

There are some names in sports that we take for granted, and when we really think about them and ask just what the heck is that? Well, those are the ones I ask about too, and I now share my research with one that actually helps shed light on two major sports programs in the US.

Sometimes in life, it is the little things that matter. In the case of our guest today it was a small annual marketing booklet on sports that brought a family bond closer between a father and his son and a link that will last as a fond memory, for historian and author Mark Speck.

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Go to SportsHistoryNetwork.com/Row1 for access to the full Row One catalog for gallery prints and gift items. Plus, get a 15% discount on all prints on the Row One Pictorem Gallery with coupon code SHN15.

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The Chicago White Sox has an interesting origin story that I found appropriate to lok ino after our friend Joe Ziemba has talked so fondly of his favorite team that he grew up near, including his story in this edition of the great Nellie Fox.

The site of the MLB also has the history of the logos and uniforms of the White Sox.

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Go to SportsHistoryNetwork.com/Row1 for access to the full Row One catalog for gallery prints and gift items. Plus, get a 15% discount on all prints on the Row One Pictorem Gallery with coupon code SHN15.

Get a free one-week subscription to Newspapers.com by visiting SportsHistoryNetwork.com/newspapers. And with a paid subscription, you’ll also be helping to support the production of this and other Sports History Network shows.