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1960 World Series – “The Mazeroski Moment”
October 1960; Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: No. 9 of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Bill Mazeroski, has just hit a pitch that is heading for the trees beyond the left field wall. It is an historic home run, occurring in the bottom … Continue reading
Ishmael Reed on Muhammad Ali – Ishmael Reed
“In the films Mandingo and Drum former World Boxing Association Heavyweight Champion Ken Norton plays a slave boxer, his flesh handled by people who have such intense feelings for him they wish to stab him or boil him in a … Continue reading
1964 Winter Olympics
“The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (German: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 (Austro-Bavarian: Innschbruck 1964), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to … Continue reading
Another Side of Kerouac: The Dharma Bum as Sports Nut
“Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the exploits … Continue reading
The literary World Cup: readers’ best all-time teams
July 2014: “Back when the World Cup was in those exciting and unpredictable first rounds, we were playing away at Penguin’s imaginary books World Cup, where an England with JK Rowling, George Orwell and Agatha Christie in attack and the … Continue reading
Baseball And Writing By Marianne Moore
The baseball fan redux. “Baseball is a language, and, for the fanatic, it is language. It is the baseball fan who continues to make language baseball’s lingua franca.Baseball is a language, and, for the fanatic, it is language. It is … Continue reading
Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball; Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life; Into the Temple of Baseball
“… I ended up with exactly that, an immaculate gem of a book. The book is called Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball and, just as the title suggests, it’s a rich collection of artwork, poetry, and essays … Continue reading
Fun Maps: Tracing NYC’s NBA Basketball Roots for the All-Star Game
“New York City is buzzing about the NBA All-Star Game this weekend at Madison Square Garden. Yesterday, we looked at the history of the New York Renaissance team, aka the Harlem Rens, the most famous of the black fives. We also … Continue reading
The Joy of Keeping Score – Paul Dickson
“I’ve always loved scorekeeping, even though it ended my baseball career. True, my career wasn’t helped by the fact that I was much smaller than all my teammates (where was HGH back then?). Nor did my difficulty making contact with … Continue reading
Struck Out: The Fall of the 1964 Phillies
Gene Mauch “… The Collapse. In the next game, manager Gene Mauch rode Robinson, Ruiz and the rest of the Reds hard from the dugout, yelling over at them constantly about Ruiz and his stealing home the night before. The … Continue reading
1969: We Have Liftoff in Queens
The scoreboard at Shea Stadium showed no hits for Chicago as Tom Seaver pitched to Ernie Banks of the Cubs on July 9. Seaver came within two outs of a perfect game. “The season began with a loss to the … Continue reading
A History of Rucker Park: The True Mecca of Basketball
“Walk into Harlem’s Rucker Park, located on 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in New York City—right across the street from where the Polo Grounds used to stand—on an ordinary afternoon, and you might not understand. Not right away at … Continue reading
The Baseball Encyclopedia
“The Baseball Encyclopedia is a baseball reference book first published by Macmillan in 1969. Nine further editions of the book were released between 1974 and 1996. The Baseball Encyclopedia features statistical summaries for Major League Baseball (MLB) players. Baseball reference … Continue reading
How Albert Camus Found Solace in the Absurdity of Football
Camus is in the front row, in the scarf and hat. “On the 16th of October 1957, Albert Camus was eating lunch at a restaurant in the heart of Paris’s Latin Quarter. Partway through the meal, a young man from … Continue reading
The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book – Brendan C. Boyd & Fred C. Harris
“The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book is a book written by Brendan C. Boyd & Fred C. Harris about baseball cards, primarily ones issued during the 1950s and 1960s, and the players on the cards. … Continue reading
Thinking About the Sixties by Richard Goldstein
“The ’60s was was a decade without nostalgia, and thus a decade without irony. It’s only natural, then, that the current wave of nostalgia for the ’60s is suffused with irony — for we are looking back to a time … Continue reading
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H-O-R-S-E
“The game of H-O-R-S-E is played by 2 or more players. The order of turns is established before the game starts. The player whose turn is first is given control, which means they must attempt to make a basket in … Continue reading
Regina King – One Night in Miami … (2020) Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke
“Regina King’s feature-film directorial debut, One Night in Miami . . . (2020), persuasively envisions an astonishing true-life convergence of Black heroes at a portentous mid-twentieth-century juncture in American life. In doing so, the movie brings forth its own array of astonishments, not the … Continue reading
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Why Basketball’s Greatest Decade was the 1960s
Lew Alcindor at Power Memorial, NYC “The ’60s was clearly the best era. Why? Only 9 teams in a nation of basketball players. If you drove thru every suburb, there was a hoop in EVERY driveway. Society put endless pressure … Continue reading
PBS: “Muhammad Ali” Four-part documentary series
Like many aspects of Muhammad Ali’s life, this photo of him defeating Sonny Liston in 1965 transcended boxing. A new documentary assesses Ali’s impact inside the ring and out. “There it was, legendary frame by legendary frame, frozen in time … Continue reading
JACOBIN No.29 / Spring 2018: 1968
“Between us we can change this rotten society. Now, put on your coat and make for the nearest cinema. Look at their deadly love-making on the screen. Isn’t it better in real life? Make up your mind to learn to … Continue reading
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Eduardo Galeano – Soccer in Sun and Shadow
“And Eduardo Galeano‘s book seems to reverberate that sentiment, though in much spectacular detail. ‘Soccer in Sun and Shadow‘ is easily the most beautiful book written on the Beautiful Game in every respect. Beauty lies in simplicity & the joy … Continue reading
The Trials of Muhammad Ali – Bill Siegel (2013)
“Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, was not the only American to refuse to serve during the Vietnam War, but he was, by some measures, the most famous, the loudest and the baddest. Tracing the road to Mr. Ali’s act of … Continue reading
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What Was J. Edgar Hoover Biggest Secret that Could Have Destroyed Him?
“John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed director of the Bureau of … Continue reading
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Strat-O-Matic Baseball
“Strat-O-Matic is a game company based in Glen Head, New York, that develops and publishes sports simulation games. … Strat-O-Matic began as a company in 1961, when Hal Richman, a Bucknell University mathematics student, began selling an early version of … Continue reading
Fat City – Leonard Gardner (1969)
“Fat City is a novel by Leonard Gardner published in 1969. It is his only novel. Its prestige has grown since its publication, due to critical acclaim from Joan Didion and Walker Percy, among others. The book is widely considered … Continue reading
Muhammad Ali Explains Why He Refused to Fight in Vietnam: “My Conscience Won’t Let Me Go Shoot My Brother… for Big Powerful America” (1970)
“In April of 1967, Muhammad Ali arrived at the U.S. Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas. ‘Standing beside twenty-five other nerve-racked young men called to the draft,’ writes David Remnick at The New Yorker, Ali ‘refused to … Continue reading
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Jim Bouton – Ball Four (1970)
“Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of ‘Ball Four,’ a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling — player’s diary that tainted the game’s wholesome image, … Continue reading
Basketball and Black Pride: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Resident Organizing in New York City Public Housing
“In the summer of 1968, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — known at the time as Lew Alcindor, and just barely twenty-one years old — was already a basketball legend. Impossibly tall and incredibly talented, he had led New York City’s Power Academy … Continue reading
Cleveland Summit
Fight in Vietnam. Those present are: (front row) Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Lew Alcindor; (back row) Carl Stokes, Walter Beach, Bobby Mitchell, Sid Williams, Curtis McClinton, Willie Davis, Jim Shorter, and John Wooten. “It was a sunny Sunday … Continue reading
The Things We Knew Then: Vivid Then, Fading Now?
“1. James Forman was a. ’68 Olympic heavyweight champion b. national director of the Congress of Racial Equality c. a Czechoslovakian film director d. executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 2. In Easy Rider, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, … Continue reading
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James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America & Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969)
James Baldwin, New York City, 1976; photograph by Nancy Crampton “There are many reasons, some quite literal, that it can be painful to talk about racism in the U.S. For one thing, it often seems that writers like W.E.B. Du … Continue reading
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The Story Behind the Iconic Black Power Salute Photo at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City
“You may know his name, and you definitely know the iconic photo of him standing next to Tommie Smith and Peter Norman on the medals podium at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, his black-gloved fist raised next to Smith’s … Continue reading
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New York Mets: 1962–1966
Manager Casey Stengel theatrically pointing the way at the start of spring training in 1962. “The history of the New York Mets began in 1962 when the team was introduced as part of the National League‘s first expansion of the … Continue reading
Artifacts of the Analog Era – Rex Weiner
“As I pack the FedEx box addressed to the Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New York—a nonprofit study center for ‘objects created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, t-shirts and buttons, audio recordings…’—I am … Continue reading
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. – Robert Coover (1968)
“The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. is Robert Coover‘s second novel, published in 1968. J. Henry Waugh is an accountant, albeit an unhappy one. However, each night after he comes home from work, Henry immerses himself in … Continue reading
Our Man in Havana – J. Hoberman
April 10, 1984: “… Well, a lot of things have changed since 1957, but Havana remains a cornucopia of ’50s imagery. It’s actually in fashion! Even modest bungalows out in the suburbs sport curlicue grillwork and harlequin mosaics, jazzily tapered … Continue reading
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Game of the Century
“In men’s college basketball, the Game of the Century was a historic National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) game between the Houston Cougars and the UCLA Bruins played on January 20, 1968, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. It was the … Continue reading
Pelé
Italy v Brazil, 12 May 1963 “Edson Arantes do Nascimento, KBE (Brazilian Portuguese; born 23 October 1940), known as Pelé ([peˈlɛ]), is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as one of the … Continue reading
Jacques Plante
“Joseph Jacques Omer Plante (…January 17, 1929 – February 27, 1986) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. During a career lasting from 1947 to 1975, he was considered to be one of the most important innovators in hockey. He … Continue reading