Show Notes
- Ken Burns, Baseball – PBS Series
- The Box Score (Wikipedia)
- Tim Kurkjian, nostalgia for original box score collecting
- Famous political event and breakthrough of Jackie Robinson, first African American in major league baseball
- Famous insider autobiography by Jim Bouton’s BALL FOUR
- VIDEO: Mel Allen, White Sox @ Dodgers 1959 World Series game, Sandy Koufax pitching from LA Coliseum with short left field fence - see Game #10 in the list.
- LA Coliseum – left field impossibly short, “Moon shots,” Dodgers moved in 1958 – first world series (90K seating)
- Unreleased Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) song about baseball, sung by Dennis Wilson, "It's Trying to Say,"
- Bruce's Ten Greatest Baseball Movies
- George Carlin routine on baseball
- Expansion teams and dates
- Moonshot (Wikipedia)
- Japanese Toyota advertisement celebrating baseball (thanks to Michael Malanga for sending this link along)