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In this episode, we talk about some baseball history. Author J. Daniel joins us to chat about his latest book, Suds Series, which focuses on the cities of Milwaukee and St. Louis, their connection to baseball and the beer business, and the meeting of the Cardinals and the Brewers in the 1982 World Series.

More on this 1982 season and our write-up on Suds Series at JerseyDispatch.com

You can find a copy of J's book Sud Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of '82 here at J' Daniel's 80sbaseball.com or the University of Missouri Press Website.

Follow J. Daniel on Twitter: @JDaniel2033

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The journey to find the most substantial Major League Baseball players that wore the number 1 on their uniforms starts by looking at who the Baseball Hall of Fame has in their hallowed halls. We chat about them, their stats, and a little bit of the history of the number.

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More rules revisions are coming to the MLB other than timing clocks being added. Teams need to make some choices on their jerseys and even some adornments. We talk about these and more in this episode.

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There is only one school I am aware of with the nickname of the Hoyas. Georgetown University is unique in that moniker. Who was the George in Georgetown? What is a Hoya? Is it a bulldog, as the logo suggests? These questions are answered and more in this episode.

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Unpopular Essays on Sports History is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

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Unpopular Essays on Sports History

Supposition. We live in a golden age of sports.

I mean this not in the sense of athletes becoming stronger, speedier, savvier and smarter than ever before, nor in terms of the amazing access we have to live streams and stat feeds, instant insights and opinionating, the quirks and personalities of our celebrity heroes.

This, rather, is a golden age of sports in humanistic, historical terms. The truth is that the great majority of people today, willingly or not, have a direct and regular connection to organized and/or participatory sports in their everyday lives than anyone born before the 20th century.

In the United States, not a person alive can recall a time when sports was not a staple of the daily newspaper. For four generations, the notion that nightly news programs should devote up to one-quarter of their airtime to sports is taken for granted. Why do we take this for granted?

At Unpopular Essays on Sports History, everything is questionable.

Supposition: Those who play the games have ascended in the public eye to heights unimaginable in times past. Playing top-level sports can get today’s athlete into business, TV production, national politics – and just how did this happen?

At Unpopular Essays on Sports History, everything is up for examination.

Supposition: Sports – wherever they are played but particularly in these places where they are invented – effect culture, even pace it. One could argue that sports are more important than ever.

Corollary: Sports history, too, should be more important, yet is probably more disrespected and disavowed than ever.

At Unpopular Essays on Sports History, we love the past while marveling at the present, and wondering about the future.  

The “unpopular essays” of the title is a nod to Bertrand Russell, the logical positivist and my favorite philosopher. (Plus it’s a great excuse to get my BA degree to finally pay off.) And as we’re taught in philosophy, It’s not about answering the questions; it’s about making them clearer.

Three days a week, Unpopular Essays on Sports History will examine a moment in sports history, probe some modern ethos of our games, or speculate on what the past can teach the future – and all in 500 words or less – though probably occasionally throwing in the occasional longer interview. We’ll tour the spaces and times of the whole wide world of sports history about as quickly as Secretariat ran the Belmont Stakes.

Supposition: Sports history is fascinating, illuminating and fun. Join me, Os Davis, in making the questions of sports history clearer right here an Unpopular Essays on Sports History, an SHN production. 

Os Davis, host of Unpopular Essays on Sports History 

Os never played the games but has enjoyed a nearly 30-year career in sports writing, reporting, blogging, and podcasting. He has hosted/co-hosted and produced/co-produced podcasts on NFL football, CFL football, European basketball and sports movie review. For the Sports History Network, he currently writes and co-produces the historical fiction audiodrama Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer and will return soon with more episodes of Truly the GOATs (promise).

Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.

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Talkin' Two Tone is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.

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Please join me in welcoming Asher and Tyler to the Sports History Network. They bring to us their podcast, "Talkin' Two Tone: A Titans Podcast," where they talk all things revolving around their beloved Tennessee Titans. You'll of course get some up to date stuff with the current season, but they also take you back in time to reminisce some of the greatest moments in Titan history.

Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.

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Sports History Network Theme Song

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We are honored to have had the opportunity to sit down with Alan Swigonski, author of so far two books titled Erie Baseball & Softball 360 Volumes One and Two. Alan helps to preserve the traditions of baseball and softball and the famous players that took the field here in Northwest Pennsylvania.

So sit back and listen to Mr. Alan Swigonski and contact Werner Books at (814) 864-1565 to get your copy of Erie Baseball & Softball 360 Volumes One and Two.

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Author Dan Cisco visited us recently after his publicist sent a copy of his latest book, California Sports Astounding, for review. When I got my nose into the book, it captured my interest, and I was so pleased to have the opportunity to discuss the subject of sports history in the state of California with Dan.

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Celebrating the milestones in sports history made on January 28 throughout history by remembering the athletes and the jersey numbers that they wore.

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Celebrating the milestones in sports history made on January 26 throughout history by remembering the athletes and the jersey numbers that they wore.

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