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Bobby Thompson

Your cheatin’ heart

January 17, 2020

The latest batch of cheating accusations and ensuing scandals? This isn’t the first time complaints about the use of technology have been raised. I wrote about this over a decade ago and it seems like an appropriate time to revisit the conversation I had with Joshua Prager, author of The Echoing Green: The Untold Story […]

Tagged as: Bobby Thompson, New York Giants, Ralph Branca

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* I saw it in the Times

October 25, 2008

One more reason that the current NY Times is not your granddaddy’s newspaper. The history of the World Series home run on TV (video).

Tagged as: baseball on TV, Bobby Thompson, Carlton Fisk, home runs, World Series

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