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The Joy of Keeping Score – Paul Dickson

Posted on October 8, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“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 →

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Struck Out: The Fall of the 1964 Phillies

Posted on September 3, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

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 →

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1969: We Have Liftoff in Queens

Posted on August 19, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

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 →

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A History of Rucker Park: The True Mecca of Basketball

Posted on July 3, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“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 →

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The Baseball Encyclopedia

Posted on June 24, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“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 →

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How Albert Camus Found Solace in the Absurdity of Football

Posted on April 13, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

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 →

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The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book – Brendan C. Boyd & Fred C. Harris

Posted on April 8, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“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 →

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Thinking About the Sixties by Richard Goldstein

Posted on March 22, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“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

Posted on March 21, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“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 →

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Regina King – One Night in Miami … (2020) Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke

Posted on February 13, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“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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