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16.9K2Baseball Eccentrics: Boston Has Had Plenty
Bill “Spaceman” Lee ranks as one of the biggest flakes ever to hurl the horsehide. A left-handed pitcher for the Red Sox...
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6.6K7How Diva Poet Amy Lowell Saved the Boston Athenaeum
Amy Lowell was 26, and not yet a poet but certainly a diva when she began her crusade to save the elegant...
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11.8K11913, the Year of the Great Tango Controversy
In April 1913, 90-year-old Henry McHenry walked out of the Chelsea Old Soldiers Home, telling his friends he was going to town...
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7.9K3The 1948 World Series: Spahn, Sain and No Rain
It didn’t rain during the 1948 World Series, which may be why the Boston Braves lost to the Cleveland Indians in their...
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11.4K1Zombies on Broadway Nearly Kills a Career
The only thing scary about the 1945 film Zombies on Broadway was what it almost did to the career of Wally Brown,...
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12.4K4Tenting Tonight: A Civil War Song Endures 150 Years Later
The beloved Civil War song Tenting Tonight captured the war-weariness of the homesick soldier, but it was written by a draftee who...
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