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Quiz kids

July 27, 2010 · View Comments

The Mental Floss website offers these quizzes: Did he throw a no-hitter? The Simpsons softball quiz The baseball card brand quiz

Tagged as: Baseball Trivia, mental floss, quizzes

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Because you can put a tiny stadium on your Bookshelf

June 22, 2010 · View Comments

if not a tiny scoreboard. Mental Floss, a bright and funny publication in which a couple of my articles have appeared (and one day again, I hope. Hint, hint, Mental Floss; I have no shame) published this brief history on the evolution of the scoreboard. The piece also links to some other cool baseball items, [...]

Tagged as: baseball history, baseball scoreboards, magazine, mental floss

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* Baseball in mental floss

October 13, 2008 · View Comments

A national pastime trifecta in the brainy magazine in the November/December issue. At this point, the citations refer to the print version only. Oakland As general manager Billy “Moneyball” Beane is hailed as one of “the new Einsteins” in a featured article. In an item about man’s best friend: “Portuguese water dogs…[have] been living up [...]

Tagged as: Albert Einstein, Billy Beane, Bob Barker, mental floss, Oakland As, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Whitey Herzog

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