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Everything but the Show

KJ Castro

Perspectives on baseball culture, history and journalism.

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A "Kind Heart"

Nestled within a stack of overlooked papers and trade publications, an aged Ernie Banks baseball card sits.

On a disorganized desk, the likeness of Mr. Cub stands out, distinguished by his recognizable blue hat adorned with a vivid red “C”...

2 years ago

Homeopathy at bat

The Middletown Asylums in 1905. Wilber E. Cook is in the center. (Edited image of a postcard.)

“It’s not possible for the mind to conceive or harbor an evil thought or purpose while watching a good baseball contest, except a fleeting desir...

3 years ago
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Glove day, 1966

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. - Babe Ruth

It’s a memorable adventure. It’s the mid-60’s. It’s glove day.

The sporting goods section at Sears an...

3 years ago
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The baseball gift, regifted

Panel from Baseball Thrills #2, 1951.

Apparently I don’t remember my first MLB game.

I realized this recently, chatting with my dad about a particularly American ritual: the first baseball game shared by father and son.

June 18, 2000, a...

3 years ago
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Roswell's Rocket Man

The height of summer, 1954: Joe Bauman opens his filling station and tire stores well before the first blush of morning in supernal Roswell, New Mexico.

The amiable Bauman, a certified luminary in the town of 26,000, visits his businesses...

3 years ago

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