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More must-see TV (circa 1962): Flashing Spikes

July 25, 2013

That same paper by Chad Sabadie also uncovered another John Ford TV play touching on an ersatz Black Sox situation featuring some high-powered names . Flashing Spikes was an episode under the Alcoa Presents umbrella starring Jimmy Stewart as a former player who had conspired with six other players (Seven Men Out?) to throw a […]

Tagged as: baseball movie, Jimmy Stewart, John Ford, John Wayne

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Must-see TV, circa 1955: Rookie of the Year

July 25, 2013 · 2 comments

Funny how stream of consciousness works. I was tooling around on the web and came across a paper by Chad Sabadie on “America’s Presstime: How Images Of Baseball Reporters Have Shaped the Prception of Our National Sport and The Profession Of Journalism.” Quite interesting, if not wholly accurate. Any baseball reader or movie-goer knows about […]

Tagged as: baseball on television, John Ford, John Wayne, Rookie of the Year

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