Baseball History — As Seen From The Shadows of Cooperstown: Part IX

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 Baseball History — As Seen From The Shadows of Cooperstown: Part IX
In the ninth of a 10-part series, the author takes an in-depth look at Major League Baseball history from 1981 to 1989. As I finished moving thru the Eighties for this issue, I was reminded of how superficial this history, or any history of baseball, really is. First, as I got into the late ’80s, I could look up games in a scorebook I started keeping. (The first scorebook I kept, ... [link]

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