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I am out and about and I stopped at the Berkley Pub to have some drinks, and ran into Sugar. He looks me up and down and makes comments about how good I look. Then he asked me why I hadn't returned his calls? I suddenly realized I was supposed to see Sugar the other night when I ran into Skinner, but I didn't think anything of it...

World War II threatened to ruin Major League Baseball. By 1945, over 500 major leaguers and 3,000 minor league prospects had been enlisted for the war effort, leaving a dearth of talent for the Big Leagues...

Few books have captured the haunting world of music and rivers and of the sport they provide as well as A River Never Sleeps. Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art...

No metropolis in America has more pure baseball spirit than St. Louis, Missouri. It's a love affair that began in 1874, when a band of local boosters raised $20,000 to start a professional ball club, and the honeymoon still isn't over...

Now the Baltimore Orioles, the bumbling St. Louis Browns won their only pennant in 1944, while baseball's brightest stars were in the military. This lighthearted look at America's Pastime during World War II reminisces about charity games, cigarette drives, and the Browns themselves...

This volume offers a glimpse at what Providence citizens found important, funny, and poignant during the early 20th century, when postcards were a popular medium of communication. Within Providence, people frolic during Old Home Week and enjoy the entertainment of the WJAR Kiddie Revue...

There are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfil various roles. Some are spoken by small groups, a village or a tribe; others, much less numerous, are spoken by hundreds of millions of speakers...

Chris Von der Ahe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1867, and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. Starting out as a clerk in a grocery store, he succeeded quickly in buying the grocery store and establishing a saloon in the back...