All posts tagged "Braves"
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9.2K2MassachusettsThe Jimmy Fund Cures the Original Jimmy, But Did the Red Sox Know?
Einar Gustafson was a 12-year-old cancer patient who launched the Jimmy Fund in 1948 and then quietly succumbed to the disease. Or...
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7.8K1Arts and LeisureLouis Sockalexis, The Indian Athlete With the Tragic Flaw
Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a...
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12.0KCrime and ScandalFrederick Small Commits the Imperfect Murder of 1916
Frederick Small, an awful little man, thought of himself as an astute businessman. He wasn’t. An abusive husband, he thought he committed...
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209.5K30ConnecticutThe 1911 Heat Wave Was So Deadly It Drove People Insane
A July 1911 heat wave killed thousands of New Englanders and sent many over the brink of madness. During 11 hellish days,...
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5.5K4Arts and LeisureRemembering Martin Bergen, From Beaneaters Star to Murder-Suicide
In the summer of 1934, three very different lives converged in North Brookfield, Mass.: song-and-dance man George M. Cohan; Philadelphia Athletics...
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8.6K1Arts and LeisureThe Boston Redskins Play Their Last Game
George Preston Marshall brought professional football to Boston in 1931 with a team known as the Boston Redskins — and which won...
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4.1K3Arts and LeisureThe 1948 World Series: Braves and Indians Made a Colorful Cast
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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14.3K10Arts and LeisureThe Royal Rooters Win the World Series With ‘Tessie’
The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 1903 with the musical help of a raucous fan club called the...
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