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What Curse? On the Chicago Cubs and Generations of Bad Luck
Scott Simon is Finally Ready to Talk About All the Bad...
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Scott Simon
| April 24, 2017
When Baseball Fantasy Crashes Into Reality
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| April 6, 2017
On Time, Baseball, and the Cruel Hope of Opening Day
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Mark Kingwell
| March 31, 2017
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On Questioning the Reasons You Have for Loving a Sports Franchise
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Dwyer Murphy
| February 3, 2017
10 Great Longform Essays About Football in American Culture
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Emily Temple
| February 3, 2017
The Joy of Running
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On the Short-Lived All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
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Lipstick
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Literary Hub
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When Babe Ruth Called His Shot Against the Chicago Cubs
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32 Imaginary Tennis Matches Paul Auster's Godson Would Like To See
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Gretzky to Wittgenstein to Nabokov... He Scores!
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One's Own Immortality
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