“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again.” - James Earl Jones in The Field of Dreams

In this episode of Claptrap we sit down with vintage baseball player, Ed Shuman, and discuss how baseball was played in its original form and its evolution to modern day. With discuss changes in rules, equipment, strategy, fashion, why the White Sox wear black socks and much more. Although after listening to this episode you may feel like you want to grow a handle bar mustache, its not required. 

Society of American Baseball Research: https://sabr.org/

Vintage Baseball Association: https://www.vbba.org/

Canal Fulton Heritage Society: https://cfheritage.org/

Ohio Village Muffins: https://www.ohiohistory.org/volunteer/current-volunteers/ohio-village-muffins

Fulton Mules: https://www.facebook.com/CanalFultonMules

Dressed to the Nines Baseball Uniform Article: http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/index.htm

Claptrap Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ClaptrapCountry

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We would like to thank tyops for uploading our introduction song "Vivaldi Meets Hip Hop" to https://freesound.org/people/tyops/sounds/259860/ for use under a creative common license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

We would also like to thank GregorQuendel for uploading our outro song "Cinematic Orchestral Action Theme" to https://freesound.org/people/GregorQuendel/sounds/482097/ for use under a creative common license. As the clip is relatively long, we only used a portion for the outro. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode