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A Conversation About Immaculate Grid (and a preview for Our Beloved Medium)
Stuart speaks with Adam Darowski from Sports-Reference about how they aquired the game, Immaculate Grid. There's also a preview for a new Audio Documentary, to be relased as a podc...
Origins
In the mid-late 19th century, people were playing a few different bat and ball games. Baseball eventually emerged as fan favorite and this is the story of how that happened. This...
Audience by Castos Re-Air: Realism in Audio Fiction
As work on new episodes continue, here's an episode from a show I produce for Castos called Audience. My work with castos takes me behind the scenes of all different kinds of cool ...
Circa 1904 Chapter 3: The Grudge
Today the World Series is one of the most recognizable institutions in all of sports. When it debuted in 1903 it was met with widespread acclaim from sports writers and baseball fa...
Circa 1904 Chapter 2: The Bad Ref
On April 29, 1904 Barbados Joe Walcott and Dixie Kid met for what was a historically significant boxing match. It was only the second time two black fighters competed for the Welte...
Coming Soon: Circa 1904 Chapter 2: The Bad Ref
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Circa 1904 Chapter I: Hell Race
On August 30, 1904 32 runners set off to compete in the Olympic Marathon in St. Louis. Only 13 would finish. This poorly planned event would be one of the worst sporting events of ...
From Obscure History- The 1945 Atom Bowl
As work on new stories continues you can check out Obscure History. Hosted by Josh, it's a weekly podcast that explores obscure historical events. On this episode, which first aire...
An Update, A Conversation with Sports-Reference and a Mini Story
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Such is Fame
The 1914 Giro D'Italia was by virtually every metric, the worst bike race in history. 81 Riders entered the race. Only eight finished. There were floods, mud, rain, blizzards, inju...
Bring In the Clowns
Viewed through a certain lens, the Indianapolis Clowns can be seen as an inpsiring success story. As a black team in the segregated south they managed to endear fans of all races a...
Take Nothing For Granted
1908 was a tumultuous year in baseball. It was a tumultuous year in America. On September 23, a single base running error set off one of the most bizarre chain of events in sports ...
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